When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of the – real or merely anticipated – criticism against the background of which monarchic legitimization was expressed: what conditions, what elements, and what strategies were characteristic of a critical discussion of monocracy in antiquity, and to what extent was the relationship between ruler ideology and antimonarchic sentiment marked by mutual dependence? What significance did the eternal background noise possess which as a contre-discourse compelled rulers in Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece and Rome to justify themselves again and again?
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Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity
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- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1 ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ANTIQUITY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
- 2 “AS HE DISREGARDED THE LAW, HE WAS REPLACED DURING HIS OWN LIFETIME”
- 3 “RULERS BY THE GRACE OF GOD”, “LIAR KINGS”, AND “ORIENTAL DESPOTS”: (ANTI-)MONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ACHAEMENID IRAN
- 4 ANATOMY OF THE MONSTER: THE DISCOURSE OF TYRANNY IN ANCIENT GREECE
- 5 HERO, GOD OR TYRANT? ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EARLY HELLENISTICPERIOD
- 6 DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES AND ATHENS: RULER CULT AND ANTIMONARCHIC NARRATIVES IN PLUTARCH’S LIFE OF DEMETRIUS
- 7 ROMAN DISCOURSES AGAINST THE MONARCHY IN THE 3RD AND 2ND CENTURY BCE: THE EVIDENCE OF FABIUS PICTOR AND ENNIUS
- 8 CONSORT OR DESPOT? HOW TO DEAL WITH A QUEEN AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PRINCIPATE
- 9 PENELOPE’S WEB, OR: HOW TO BECOME A BAD EMPEROR POST MORTEM
- 10 IDLENESS. MONARCHIC AND ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL ORDER
- 11 JOSEPHUS ON HASMONEAN KINGSHIP
- 12 ‘IN SEARCH OF GOOD EMPERORS.’EMPERORS, CAESARS, AND USURPERS IN THE MIRROR OF ANTIMONARCHIC PATTERNS IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA –SOME CONSIDERATIONS
- 13 PROCOPIUS, HIS PREDECESSORS, AND THE GENESIS OF THE ANECDOTA
- CONTRIBUTORS
- GENERAL INDEX
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