Ancient tyranny

Weitere Verfasser: Lewis, Sian.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
Umfang/Format: xii, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Pt. I. The making of tyranny
  • 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
  • Pt. II. Tyranny and politics
  • Tyrants and the pols : 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
  • Pt. III. The ideology of tyranny
  • 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
  • Pt. IV. The limits of tyranny
  • The violence of the Thirty Tyrants / Andrew Wolpert
  • The politics of Persian autocracy, 424-334 BC / Stephen Ruzicka
  • Sulla the weak tyrant / Alexander Thein.