Demagogues, power, and friendship in classical Athens : leaders as friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon

Parallelsachtitel: Leaders as friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon
1. Verfasser: Simmons, Robert Holschuh , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 177 pages ; 24 cm.
Schlagworte:
Leadership > Greece > Athens.
Friendship > Greece > Athens.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Leadership in literature.
Friendship in literature.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Athens (Greece) > History.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Friendship in Athenian politics prior to the demagogues
  • Cleon and the rise of friendship-based Athenian demagogy
  • The sociology of making individual philoi among the masses
  • Distinguishing desire from friendship in leadership models in Aristophanes' Knights
  • Later developments of the "leader as philos" model
  • Conclusion : Cleon and the legacy of leadership by friendship.

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