LEADER 04521nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910807792203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7486-5104-7 010 $a1-280-76237-3 010 $a9786610762378 010 $a0-7486-2643-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748626434 035 $a(CKB)1000000000351174 035 $a(EBL)286981 035 $a(OCoLC)476039520 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000103346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113650 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000103346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10062059 035 $a(PQKB)10454381 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055488 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC286981 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL286981 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10160999 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL76237 035 $a(DE-B1597)614919 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748626434 035 $a(OCoLC)1302164516 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000351174 100 $a20080905d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aAncient tyranny /$fedited by Sian Lewis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-7486-2125-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. 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. 2. 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 / Sawomir Sprawski -- pt. 3. 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 Mosse (translated by Robin Machkenzie) -- Reckoning with tyranny : Greek thoughts on Caesar in Cicero's Letters to Atticus in early 49 / Ingo Gildenhard -- pt. 4. 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. 330 $aTyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures. This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world. The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world. Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek, Roman and Persian society. 606 $aDictators$zGreece$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aDictators$zRome$xHistory$vCongresses 607 $aGreece$xPolitics and government$yTo 146 B.C$vCongresses 607 $aRome$xPolitics and government$y510-30 B.C$vCongresses 615 0$aDictators$xHistory 615 0$aDictators$xHistory 676 $a320.938 701 $aLewis$b Sian$0486387 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807792203321 996 $aAncient tyranny$93973150 997 $aUNINA