02685nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10160999 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080905s2006 stkab sb 101 0 eng d 0748621253 (hardback) 9780748621255 9780748626434 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)100544771 e-gr--- e------ aw----- DE89 .A53 2006eb Ancient tyranny [electronic resource] / edited by Sian Lewis. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006. xii, 282 p. : ill., maps. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 / S�awomir 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 Moss�e (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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Dictators Greece History Congresses. Dictators Rome History Congresses. Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C. Congresses. Rome Politics and government 510-30 B.C. Congresses. Electronic books. local Lewis, Sian. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10160999 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 243337 243337