Popular Tyranny : : Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece / / ed. by Kathryn A. Morgan.
The nature of authority and rulership was a central concern in ancient Greece, where the figure of the king or tyrant and the sovereignty associated with him remained a powerful focus of political and philosophical debate even as Classical Athens developed the world's first democracy. This coll...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Imaginary Kings: Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece
- Form and Content: The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus
- Stick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy
- Tragic Tyranny
- Dēmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage
- Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy
- The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates
- Tyrant Killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts
- Changing the Discourse
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- General Index
- Index Locorum