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

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 upris...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Teegarden, David Arlo, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 preserve popular democratic rule in the face of anti-democratic threats. He presents detailed historical and sociopolitical analyses of each law and considers a variety of issues: What is the nature of an anti-democratic threat? How would various provisions of the laws help pro-democrats counter those threats?
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781400848539