TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis, Sian.
TI  - Ancient tyranny
SN  - 07148621253
U1  - 302.3 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Eninburgh University Press
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Greece
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Dictators
N1  - 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; 
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