Death to Tyrants! - Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle Against Tyranny

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 Part I The Invention of Tyrant-Killing Legislation Chapter 1 The Decree of Demophantos 15 Part II Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Late Classical Period Chapter 2 The Eretrian Tyrant-Killing Law 57 Chapter 3 The Law of Eukrates 85 Part III Tyrant-Killing Legislation in the Early Hellenistic Period Chapter 4 The Anti-Tyranny Dossier from Eresos 115 Chapter 5 The Philites Stele from Erythrai 142 Chapter 6 The Ilian Tyrant-Killing Law 173 Conclusion 215 Appendix: The Number and Geographic Distribution of Different Regime Types from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods 221 Bibliography 237 Index 249

Über den Autor / die Autorin

David A. Teegarden is assistant professor of classics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Zusammenfassung

Offers a study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation - laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." This title demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness the dynamics of mass uprisings and preserve popular democratic rule in the face of anti-democratic threats.

Zusatztext

"Teegarden offers some interesting insights into tyrant-killing legislation
in ancient Greece. . . . An important contribution to the research of ancient anti-tyranny legislation.
"---Maria Osmers, Phoenix

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Teegarden, David Teegarden, David Arlo Teegarden, David E Teegarden
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 24.11.2013
• EAN: 9780691156903
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15690-3
• Seiten: 278
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory