Research Catalog

Title

Ancient tyranny [electronic resource] / edited by Sian Lewis.

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Details

Additional Authors

• Lewis, Sian.
• ebrary, Inc.

Description

1 online resource (xii, 282 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

Ancient tyranny (Online)

Subjects

• Rome > Politics and government > 510-30 B.C > Congresses
• Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C > Congresses
• Dictators > Rome > History > Congresses
• Dictators > Greece > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

Contents

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 / Sławomir 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 Mossé (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.

OCLC

ssj0000103346

Title

Ancient tyranny [electronic resource] / edited by Sian Lewis.

Imprint

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Lewis, Sian.

ebrary, Inc.