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The crooked kings of ancient Greece / Daniel Ogden.
LIBRA DF82 .O44 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogden, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kings and rulers, Ancient.
- Greece--Kings and rulers.
- Greece.
- Kings and rulers.
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Duckworth, [1997]
- Summary:
- By comparing traditional narratives concerning archaic colonists and tyrants, Ogden shows that monarchic rulers in archaic Greece were often paradoxically conceptualized as deformed scapegoats or as evil malformed babies of sinister birth. This way of thinking helped to explain their extraordinary power, for they embodied in their twisted limbs a terrible pollution that enabled them to overthrow their communities. The author considers a diverse range of related themes, including the myth of Oedipus, the fables of Aesop, the meanings attached to monkeys, pigs and mice, demonic cooks, the characters of early farce, Spartan hairstyles, and the beginnings of Greek democracy and ostracism at Athens.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0715627163 :
- OCLC:
- 37322229
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