Ancient tyranny

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Lewis, Sian.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10160999
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245 0 0 |a Ancient tyranny  |c edited by Sian Lewis. 
260 |a Edinburgh :  |b Edinburgh University Press,  |c 2006. 
300 |a xii, 282 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a pt. 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 / S±awomir 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 Mossβe (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. 
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651 0 |a Greece  |x Politics and government  |y To 146 B.C. 
651 0 |a Rome  |x Politics and government  |y 510-30 B.C. 
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