LEADER 03850nam 22005894a 450 001 9910811726403321 005 20240418035920.0 010 $a0-292-79782-6 024 7 $a10.7560/752764 035 $a(CKB)1000000000453919 035 $a(OCoLC)609074990 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10217887 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224506 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224506 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210862 035 $a(PQKB)10126147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443148 035 $a(OCoLC)60334026 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10217887 035 $a(DE-B1597)587776 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797826 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000453919 100 $a20021202d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPopular tyranny$b[electronic resource] $esovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece /$fKathryn A. Morgan, editor 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-75276-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tImaginary Kings: Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece -- $tForm and Content: The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus -- $tStick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy -- $tTragic Tyranny -- $tD?mos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage -- $tDemos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy -- $tThe Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates -- $tTyrant Killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts -- $tChanging the Discourse -- $tAfterword -- $tBibliography -- $tNotes on Contributors -- $tGeneral Index -- $tIndex Locorum 330 $aThe nature of authority and rulership was a central concern in ancient Greece, where the figure of the king or tyrant and the sovereignty associated with him remained a powerful focus of political and philosophical debate even as Classical Athens developed the world's first democracy. This 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 archaeologists, literary critics, and historians. The book ranges historically from the Bronze and early Iron Age to the political theorists and commentators of the middle of the fourth century B.C. and generically across tragedy, comedy, historiography, and philosophy. While offering individual and sometimes differing perspectives, the essays tackle several common themes: the construction of authority and of constitutional models, the importance of religion and ritual, the crucial role of wealth, and the autonomy of the individual. Moreover, the essays with an Athenian focus shed new light on the vexed question of whether it was possible for Athenians to think of themselves as tyrannical in any way. As a whole, the collection presents a nuanced survey of how competing ideologies and desires, operating through the complex associations of the image of tyranny, struggled for predominance in ancient cities and their citizens. 606 $aDespotism 607 $aGreece$xPolitics and government$yTo 146 B.C 615 0$aDespotism. 676 $a320.938/09/014 701 $aMorgan$b Kathryn A$0675123 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811726403321 996 $aPopular tyranny$94042997 997 $aUNINA