Ancient tyranny / edited by Sian Lewis.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:xii, 282 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The making of tyranny
  • 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
  • pt. 2. Tyranny and politics
  • Tyrants and the pols : 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 / Sawomir Sprawski
  • pt. 3. The ideology of tyranny
  • Pindar and kingship theory / Simon Hornblower
  • The comic Pericles / James McGlew
  • Tyrannical oligarches at Athens / Lynette Mitchell
  • Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants / Claude Mosse (translated by Robin Machkenzie)
  • Reckoning with tyranny : Greek thoughts on Caesar in Cicero's Letters to Atticus in early 49 / Ingo Gildenhard
  • pt. 4. The limits of tyranny
  • The violence of the Thirty Tyrants / Andrew Wolpert
  • The politics of Persian autocracy, 424-334 BC / Stephen Ruzicka
  • Sulla the weak tyrant / Alexander Thein.