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Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece
James F. McGlew
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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. In this richly insightful book, James F. McGlew examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Surveying a vast range of historical and literary sources, McGlew looks closely at discourse concerning Greek tyranny as well as at the nature of the tyrants' power and the constraints on power implicit in that discourse. Archaic tyrants, he shows, characteristically represented themselves as agents of justice. Taking their self-representation not as an ideological veil ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801483875
SKU
V9780801483875
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Reviews for Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece
""A stimulating and tightly argued bookwhich sheds genuinely new light on a notoriously problematic area of Greek history." —Robert Garland, Colgate University" "This new and fascinating approach, unlike but very complementary to traditional studies... focuses upon how the Greeks experienced contemporary autocrats and their reactions to that experience."
J. M. Balcer, Ohio State University, Religious Studies Review "Why were ... Read more
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