Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Franz Steiner Verlag,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ANTIQUITY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; 2 "AS HE DISREGARDED THE LAW, HE WAS REPLACED DURING HIS OWN LIFETIME"; 3 "RULERS BY THE GRACE OF GOD", "LIAR KINGS", AND "ORIENTAL DESPOTS": (ANTI- )MONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ACHAEMENID IRAN; 4 ANATOMY OF THE MONSTER: THE DISCOURSE OF TYRANNY IN ANCIENT GREECE; 5 HERO, GOD OR TYRANT? ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EARLY HELLENISTICPERIOD; 6 DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES AND ATHENS: RULER CULT AND ANTIMONARCHIC NARRATIVES IN PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF DEMETRIUS
- 7 ROMAN DISCOURSES AGAINST THE MONARCHY IN THE 3RD AND 2ND CENTURY BCE: THE EVIDENCE OF FABIUS PICTOR AND ENNIUS8 CONSORT OR DESPOT? HOW TO DEAL WITH A QUEEN AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PRINCIPATE; 9 PENELOPE'S WEB, OR: HOW TO BECOME A BAD EMPEROR POST MORTEM; 10 IDLENESS. MONARCHIC AND ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL ORDER; 11 JOSEPHUS ON HASMONEAN KINGSHIP; 12 'IN SEARCH OF GOOD EMPERORS.'EMPERORS, CAESARS, AND USURPERS IN THE MIRROR OF ANTIMONARCHIC PATTERNS IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA -SOME CONSIDERATIONS
- 13 PROCOPIUS, HIS PREDECESSORS, AND THE GENESIS OF THE ANECDOTACONTRIBUTORS; GENERAL INDEX