Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by internationally known archaeologi
Trade ReviewThe book is extremely successful in guiding the reader, who is not expected to be a classicist or ancient historian, through the paradoxes of the ideology of tyranny in classical Athens. [...] On the whole, this is a very stimulating volume, offering food for thought to historians, ancient and modern, and to anybody interested in political theory as well. * The Historian *
This is a fascinating book, and should be an excellent stimulus for further discussion. * Journal of Hellenic Studies *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Kathryn A. Morgan)
- Imaginary Kings: Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece (Sarah Morris)
- Form and Content: The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus (Carolyn Dewald)
- Stick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy (Kurt A. Raaflaub)
- Tragic Tyranny (Richard Seaford)
- Dêmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage (Lisa Kallet)
- Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy (Jeffrey Henderson)
- The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates (Kathryn A. Morgan)
- Tyrant-killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts (Josiah Ober)
- Changing the Discourse (Robin Osborne)
- Conclusion (Kathryn A. Morgan)
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
