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Sovereignty and Divinity in Classical Greek Thought --$t2. The Mother of the Gods and the Sovereignty of Midas --$t3. The Mother of the Gods and the Ideals of Lydian Tyranny --$t4. The Mother of the Gods and the Practices of Lydian Tyranny --$t5. Asia, the Oikoum?n;, and the Map of the World --$t6. The Mother of the Gods and Persian Sovereignty --$t7. Persian Sovereignty and the Gods of the Athenians --$t8. Herodotus and the Gods --$t9. The Mother of the Gods at Athens --$tBibliography --$tGeneral index --$tIndex of select Greek terms --$tIndex locorum 330 $aAmong maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. She is variously described as a devoted mother, a chaste wife, an impassioned lover, and a virgin daughter; she is said to be both foreign and familiar to the Greeks. In this erudite and absorbing study, Mark Munn examines how the cult of Mother of the Gods came from Phrygia and Lydia, where she was the mother of tyrants, to Athens, where she protected the laws of the Athenian democracy. Analyzing the divergence of Greek and Asiatic culture at the beginning of the classical era, Munn describes how Kybebe, the Lydian goddess who signified fertility and sovereignty, assumed a different aspect to the Greeks when Lydia became part of the Persian empire. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, he shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods, and as a symbol of their own sovereignty. This book elegantly illustrates how ancient divinities were not static types, but rather expressions of cultural systems that responded to historical change. Presenting a new perspective on the context in which the Homeric and Hesiodic epics were composed, Munn traces the transformation of the Asiatic deity who was the goddess of Sacred Marriage among the Assyrians and Babylonians, equivalent to Ishtar. Among the Lydians, she was the bride to tyrants and the mother of tyrants. To the Greeks, she was Aphrodite. An original and compelling consideration of the relations between the Greeks and the dominant powers of western Asia, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia is the first thorough examination of the way that religious cult practice and thought influenced political activities during and after the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. 410 0$aJoan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. 606 $aCybele (Goddess)$xCult$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aCybele (Goddess)$xCult$zLydia (Kingdom) 606 $aDespotism$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aReligion and politics$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aReligion and politics$zLydia (Kingdom)$xHistory 606 $aSovereignty$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCybele (Goddess)$xCult$xHistory. 615 0$aCybele (Goddess)$xCult 615 0$aDespotism$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aSovereignty$xReligious aspects$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a292.2/114 700 $aMunn$b Mark Henderson$0440449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457751803321 996 $aThe Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the tyranny of Asia$92478325 997 $aUNINA LEADER 04024nam 22006495 450 001 9910163005103321 005 20230810190848.0 010 $a9783319495989 010 $a3319495984 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-49598-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000001041422 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-49598-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4794210 035 $a(PPN)259473731 035 $a(Perlego)3497058 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001041422 100 $a20170130d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh $eThe City Corporation /$fby Pranab Kumar Panday 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 139 p. 3 illus.) 311 08$a9783319495972 311 08$a3319495976 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. A Brief History of Urban Governance in Bangladesh -- Chapter Three. Scale and Magnitude of Urbanization in Bangladesh -- Chapter Four. Intergovernmental Structure and Functional Assignments of City Corporations -- Chapter Five. Effective Local Political Structures and Leadership -- Chapter Six. Local Administrative Powers of City Corporations -- Chapter Seven. Local Fiscal Autonomy of City Corporations -- Chapter Eight. Local Participation and Accountability -- Chapter Nine. Conclusion and Recommendations. 330 $aThis book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates. Along with a discussion of the scale and magnitude of urbanization, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the reform agendas of CCs including their functional assignments, local political leadership, local control over administration and service delivery, local fiscal autonomy and local financial management, and local participation and accountability mechanisms. Very few efforts have been taken to analyze the comprehensive reform agenda required to make the CCs effectively discharge their duties and responsibilities in the context of Bangladesh. This book therefore not only fills this gap in the literature, but also provides recommendations on each reform agenda. Pranab Kumar Panday is Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, USA in 2012. Panday's main areas of research include public policy, public administration, governance and gender studies. 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