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Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morgan, Kathryn A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Imaginary kings: alternatives to monarchy in early Greece / Sarah Morris
  • Form and content: the question of tyranny in Herodotus / Carolyn Dewald
  • Stick and glue: the function of tyranny in fifth-century Athenian democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • Tragic tyranny / Richard Seaford
  • Dēmos tyrannos: wealth, power, and economic patronage / Lisa Kallet
  • Demos, demagogue, tyrant in Attic old comedy / Jeffrey Henderson
  • The tyranny of audience in Plato and Isocrates / Kathryn A. Morgan
  • Tyrant killing as therapeutic Stasis: a political debate in images and texts / Josiah Ober
  • Changing the discourse / Robin Osborne.