The nature of authority and rulership was a central concern in
ancient Greece, where the figure of the king or tyrant and the
sovereignty associated with him remained a powerful focus of
political and philosophical debate even as Classical Athens
developed the world's first democracy. This collection of essays
examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played
in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical
Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by
internationally known archaeologists, literary critics, and
historians.
The book ranges historically from the Bronze and early Iron Age
to the political theorists and commentators of the middle of the
fourth century B.C. and generically across tragedy, comedy,
historiography, and philosophy. While offering individual and
sometimes differing perspectives, the essays tackle several common
themes: the construction of authority and of constitutional models,
the importance of religion and ritual, the crucial role of wealth,
and the autonomy of the individual. Moreover, the essays with an
Athenian focus shed new light on the vexed question of whether it
was possible for Athenians to think of themselves as tyrannical in
any way. As a whole, the collection presents a nuanced survey of
how competing ideologies and desires, operating through the complex
associations of the image of tyranny, struggled for predominance in
ancient cities and their citizens.
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