Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece / Kathryn A. Morgan, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Kathryn A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Despotism.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Contents:

Imaginary kings: alternatives to monarchy in early Greece / Sarah Morris

Form and content: the question of tyranny in Herodotus / Carolyn Dewald

Stick and glue: the function of tyranny in fifth-century Athenian democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub

Tragic tyranny / Richard Seaford

Dēmos tyrannos: wealth, power, and economic patronage / Lisa Kallet

Demos, demagogue, tyrant in Attic old comedy / Jeffrey Henderson

The tyranny of audience in Plato and Isocrates / Kathryn A. Morgan

Tyrant killing as therapeutic Stasis: a political debate in images and texts / Josiah Ober

Changing the discourse / Robin Osborne.

Notes:

"This volume emerged from the conference "Popular tyranny : sovereignty and its discontents in Classical Athens," held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the spring of 1998"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-303) and indexes.

ISBN:

0292752768

OCLC:

51210641