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Ancient tyranny /
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 though...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2006]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.