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The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone
Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean
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eBook - PDF
The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone
Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean
About this book
Monarchy, that is, a political order characterized by a single ruler, is an understudied aspect of Greek politics and culture. The contributors to this e-book provide a unified scholarly framework in which to interpret the sociological as well as the ideological side of monarchic regimes from archaic Greek tyranny to Hellenistic monarchy in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean. Taking their cue from Hans-Joachim Gehrke's essay on the victorious king, published here in an updated English translation, the contributors bring to the surface common trends and features that make it possible to sketch an integrated history of monarchic rule in ancient Greece from the Archaic to the Hellenistic age. Topics of contributions include the image of the archaic tyrant as legitimate and illegitimate ruler, the rhetoric of Hellenistic monarchy outlined in philosophical treatises on monarchy, the impact of the rise of Hellenistic monarchy on pre-existing political orders such as tyranny in Sicily and dual monarchy in Sparta, and the influence of this ideological model on political traditions in Anatolia and Palestine in the Late Hellenistic period.
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Table of contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- 1 RULING ALONE: MONARCHY IN GREEK POLITICS AND THOUGHT
- 2 THE VICTORIOUS TYRANT: HIERON OF SYRACUSE IN THE EPINICIA OF PINDARAND BACCHYLIDES
- 3 TO DIE LIKE A TYRANT
- 4 THE VICTORIOUS KING: REFLECTIONS ON THE HELLENISTIC MONARCHY
- 5 AGATHOCLES AND HIERO II: TWO SOLE RULERS IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE AND THE QUESTION OF SUCCESSION
- 6 BECOMING KINGS: SPARTAN BASILEIA IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
- 7 WRITING DOWN THE KING: THE COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF TREATISES ON KINGSHIP IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD
- 8 THE CASTRATED KING, OR: THE EVERYDAY MONSTROSITY OF LATE HELLENISTIC KINGSHIP
- 9 BETWEEN HELLENISTIC MONARCHY AND JEWISH THEOCRACY: THE CONTESTED LEGITIMACY OF HASMONEAN RULE
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX NOMINUM
- INDEX LOCORUM