Ancient tyranny/ edited by Sian Lewis.

Atti del convegno tenuto a Cardiff nel 2003.

1. Introduction, Sian Lewis;

Part I The Making of Tyranny;
2. Tyranny and Kingship in Archaic Rome, Fay Glinister;
3. Ducetius and Fifth-Century Sicilian Tyranny, Trinity Jackman;
4. Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic, Christopher Smith;
5. Money and the Great Man: military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service in the fourth century BC, Matthew Trundle;
6. From Agathocles to Hieron II: the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily, Efrem Zambon;

Part II Tyranny and Politics;
7. Tyrants and the Polis: urban development in the western Mediterranean, Kathryn Lomas;
8. Synchronicity: the local and the panhellenic within Sicilian tyranny, Sarah Harrell;
9. Alexander of Pherae: a model tyrant?, Slawomir Sprawski;

Part III The Ideology of Tyranny;
10. Pindar and Kingship Theory, Simon Hornblower;
11. The Comic Pericles, James McGlew;
12. Tyrannical Oligarchs at Athens, Lynette Mitchell;
13. Plutarque et les tyrans siciliens, Claude Mosse;
14. Caesar tyrannos: Cicero's Platonic reckoning with the Roman dictator, Ingo Gildenhard; Part IV The Limits of Tyranny;
15. The Violence of the Thirty Tyrants, Andrew Wolpert;
16. The Limits of Autocracy in the Fourth-Century BC Persian Empire, Stephen Ruzicka;
17. Sulla the Weak Tyrant, Alexander Thein;
Bibliography.