Death to Tyrants! : : Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny /

Death to Tyrants! : : Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny / / David Teegarden.

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Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness the dynamics of mass uprisings and pre...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Teegarden, David,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 halftones. 2 line illus. 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Invention of Tyrant-Killing Legislation
  • Chapter 1. The Decree of Demophantos
  • Part II. Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Late Classical Period
  • Chapter 2. The Eretrian Tyrant-Killing Law
  • Chapter 3. The Law of Eukrates
  • Part III. Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Early Hellenistic Period
  • Chapter 4. The Anti-T yranny Dossier from Eresos
  • Chapter 5. The Philites Stele from Erythrai
  • Chapter 6. The Ilian Tyrant-Killing Law
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: The Number and Geographic Distribution of Different Regime Types from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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