The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone: Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Studies in Ancient Monarchies, 1)

Luraghi, Nino

ISBN 10: 3515102590 / ISBN 13: 9783515102599

Editore: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh, 2013

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• Titolo: The Splendors and Miseries of Ruling Alone: Encounters with Monarchy from Archaic Greece to the Hellenistic Mediterranean (Studies in Ancient Monarchies, 1)
• Editore: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3515102590
• ISBN 13: 9783515102599
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fair

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Riassunto

Monarchy, that is, a political order characterized by a single ruler, is an understudied aspect of Greek politics and culture. The contributors to this 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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Nino Luraghi is the D. Magie Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He has published widely on ancient Greek history and historiography. His interests include tyranny and monarchy in Greece from the archaic age to the Roman conquest, ancient and modern slavery, ethnic identity and tradition, and Greek and Roman historiography and its audiences.