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Title Ancient tyranny / edited by Sian Lewis
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Introduction / Sian Lewis -- Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome / Fay Glinister -- Ducetius and fifth-century Sicilian tyranny / Trinity Jackman -- Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic / Christopher Smith -- Money and the great man in the fourth century BC : military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service / Matthew Trundle -- From Agathocles to Hieron II : the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily / Efrem Zambon -- Tyrants and the polis : migration, identity, and urban development in Sicily / Kathryn Lomas -- Synchronicity : the local and the panhellenic within Sicilian tyranny / Sarah E. Harrell -- Alexander of Pherae : infelix tyrant / Sławomir Sprawski -- Pindar and kingship theory / Simon Hornblower -- The comic Pericles / James McGlew -- Tyrannical oligarches at Athens / Lynette Mitchell -- Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants / Claude Mossé (translated by Robin Machkenzie) -- Reckoning with tyranny : Greek thoughts on Caesar in Cicero's Letters to Atticus in early 49 / Ingo Gildenhard -- The violence of the Thirty Tyrants / Andrew Wolpert -- The politics of Persian autocracy, 424-334 BC / Stephen Ruzicka -- Sulla the weak tyrant / Alexander Thein
Summary Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures. This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world. The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world. Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman and Persian society
Analysis Tyranny
Autocracy
Kings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Dictators -- Greece -- History -- Congresses
Dictators -- Rome -- History -- Congresses
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Dictators
Politics and government
Autokratie
Antike
Tyrann
SUBJECT Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C. -- Congresses
Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C. -- Congresses
Subject Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechenland Altertum
Römisches Reich
Cardiff <2003>
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Sian, editor.
ISBN 9780748626434
0748626433
9780748651047
0748651047
0748621253
9780748621255
1280762373
9781280762376
9786610762378
6610762376