Dialogues d’histoire ancienne supplément 21

Dialogues d’histoire ancienne supplément 21

Tyranny: New Contexts

Sian LEWIS (edit. director)

2021 – ISBN : 978-2-84867-774-3 – 228 pages – book size : 16x22 cm

Revue : Dialogue d'Histoire Ancienne

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Summary

This collection of papers, originally presented at the Seventh Celtic Classics Conference in Bordeaux, represents a new approach to the concept of ‘tyranny’ in the ancient world, tracing the idea and image of the tyrant in Greek and Roman political culture. The contributors consider rulers and regimes from classical Greece to imperial Rome, with particular emphasis on the Hellenistic period, where the role of tyranny is only beginning to receive attention, and on the ways in which tyranny was mediated by the political community. Contributors also consider the image of the tyrant in philosophy and literature, and the effects of these ideas on rulers and institutions.

Contents

Introduction

 

I- Tyranny and the Polis (La tyrannie et la polis)

 

Tyranny and Social Ontology in Classical Athens (Tyrannie et ontologie sociale dans l’Athènes classique)

          Greg Anderson

The Tyrannicide-Citizens in Fifth-Century Athens (Citoyens tyrannicides dans l’Athènes du ve siècle)

          James McGlew

Classical Tyrants and the Assembly (Tyrans de la période classique face à l’assemblée)

          Sian Lewis

 

II-The Image of the Tyrant (L’image du tyran)

 

Tragedy and Tyranny: Euripides, Archelaus of Macedon and Popular Patronage  (Tragédie et tyrannie : Euripide, Archélaos de Macédoine et soutien populaire)

          Edmund Stewart

 

III- Tyranny in the Hellenistic Kingdoms (La tyrannie dans les royaumes hellénistiques)

 

Le Nom du Maître

          Claudia De Oliveira Gomes

Tyranny under Alexander the Great and the Diadochi: the Clearchids of Heraclea Pontica (La tyrannie sous Alexandre le grand et les diadoques : les Cléarchides d’Héraclée pontique)

          Miles Lester-Pearson

 

The Tyrants of the Hellenistic East (Les tyrans de l’orient hellénistique)

          Adrian Dumitru

The Last Tyrants of Athens (Les derniers tyrans athéniens)

          Borja Antela Bernadez

Author (s)
Sian LEWIS (edit. director)
Sian Lewisis Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. She specialises in Greek political and social history of the classical period. Her publications include Greek Tyranny (2010) and an edited collection of essays Ancient Tyranny (2006).
Readership
The collection will be of interest to scholars working on the political history of the ancient world: it spans classical Greece, the Hellenistic East and republican Rome. It will also appeal to those interested in philosophical and literary approaches to tyranny in both Greece and Rome.
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Support (s)
Publié avec le concours de l’Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité (UFC – EA 4011)