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Ancient Tyranny (Hardcover, New)
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Ancient Tyranny (Hardcover, New)
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Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and
the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to
social and political pressures. This book examines the autocratic
rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing
concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings
together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all
offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the
ancient world. The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks
at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood,
and the kinds of individual who were called tyrants. Part II
focuses on the genesis of tyranny and the social and political
circumstances in which tyrants arose. The chapters in Part III
examine the presentation of tyrants by themselves and in literature
and history. Part IV discusses the achievements of episodic tyranny
within the non-autocratic regimes of Sparta and Rome and of
autocratic regimes in Persia and the western Mediterranean world.
Written by a wide range of leading experts in their field, Ancient
Tyranny offers a new and comparative study of tyranny within Greek,
Roman and Persian society.
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