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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Additional text

"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

Product details

• Authors: Teegarden, David Teegarden, David Arlo Teegarden, David E Teegarden
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2013
• EAN: 9780691156903
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15690-3
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory