Table of 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.