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The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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By comparing traditional narratives concerning archaic colonists
and tyrants, Ogden shows that monarchic rulers in archaic Greece
were often paradoxically conceptualized as deformed scapegoats or
as evil malformed babies of sinister birth. This way of thinking
helped to explain their extraordinary power, for they embodied in
their twisted limbs a terrible pollution that enabled them to
overthrow their communities. The author considers a diverse range
of related themes, including the myth of Oedipus, the fables of
Aesop, the meanings attached to monkeys, pigs and mice, demonic
cooks, the characters of early farce, Spartan hairstyles, and the
beginnings of Greek democracy and ostracism at Athens.
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