Ancient tyranny. ([2006])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sian Lewis.
• Editors: Lewis, Sian
• Contents: Introduction / Sian Lewis -- 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 -- Tyrants and the polis : 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 / Sławomir Sprawski -- Pindar and kingship theory / Simon Hornblower -- The comic Pericles / James McGlew -- Tyrannical oligarches at Athens / Lynette Mitchell -- Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants / Claude Mossé (translated by Robin Machkenzie) -- Reckoning with tyranny : Greek thoughts on Caesar in Cicero's Letters to Atticus in early 49 / Ingo Gildenhard -- The violence of the Thirty Tyrants / Andrew Wolpert -- The politics of Persian autocracy, 424-334 BC / Stephen Ruzicka -- Sulla the weak tyrant / Alexander Thein.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 320.938; Dictators -- Greece -- History -- Congresses; Dictators -- Rome -- History -- Congresses; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General; HISTORY -- Ancient -- General; Dictators; Politics and government; Autokratie; Antike; Tyrann; Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C -- Congresses; Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C -- Congresses; Greece; Rome (Empire); Griechenland; Römisches Reich; Cardiff <2003>; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; History; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780748626434; 0748626433; 9780748651047; 0748651047
• Related ISBNs: 9780748621255; 0748621253
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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