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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818768503321

Autore

Lavelle Brian M. <1951->

Titolo

Fame, money, and power : the rise of Peisistratos and "democratic" tyranny at Athens / / B.M. Lavelle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-59387-0

9786612593871

0-472-02581-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 pages)

Disciplina

938/.502

Soggetti

Dictators - Greece - Athens

Athens (Greece) History Age of Tyrants, 560-510 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

I. Introduction; 1. Foreword; 2. Sources; 3. Method; 4. Democratic Tyranny; II. The Path to Fame: The Early Life and Career of Peisistratos; 1. Introduction; 2. Pylians and Neleidai; 3. Family Background and Incipient Ambition; 4. Peisistratos and the Megarian War; III. Money, Persuasion, and Alliance: The Early Tyrannies of Peisistratos; 1. Introduction; 2. Peisistratos' First Tyranny; 3. Peisistratos' Second Tyranny; IV. The Tide of Wealth and Power: Peisistratos' Exile, Return, and ""Rooting"" of the Tyranny; 1. The Thracian Sojourn; 2. The Pallēnē Campaign; V. Summary. 1. The Three Reins of the ""Democratic"" Tyrant2. Reflections of the Sixth-Century Democratic Prototype in Democratic Athens; Appendices; A. The Site of the Attic Deme Philaïdai; B. The Environment of Eastern Attika in the Sixth Century B.C.E.; C. Prosopography; D. Peisistratos' Chronology; E. The Origins of the Herodotean Parties; F. The Site of Rhaikēlos; G. Peisistratos and the Purification of Delos: Actions and Intentions; H. Sophokles and Herodotos on the Foundations of Tyranny: Oedipous Tyrannos, 540-42; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations following page 146