Ancient tyranny/ 
edited by Sian Lewis. 
 - Great Britain:  Eninburgh University Press,  2006. 
 - 282 p.;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Atti del convegno tenuto a Cardiff nel 2003. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction, Sian Lewis; <br/><br/>Part I The Making of Tyranny; <br/>2. Tyranny and Kingship in Archaic Rome, Fay Glinister; <br/>3. Ducetius and Fifth-Century Sicilian Tyranny, Trinity Jackman; <br/>4. Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic, Christopher Smith; <br/>5. Money and the Great Man: military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service in the fourth century BC, Matthew Trundle; <br/>6. From Agathocles to Hieron II: the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily, Efrem Zambon; <br/><br/>Part II Tyranny and Politics; <br/>7. Tyrants and the Polis: urban development in the western Mediterranean, Kathryn Lomas; <br/>8. Synchronicity: the local and the panhellenic within Sicilian tyranny, Sarah Harrell; <br/>9. Alexander of Pherae: a model tyrant?, Slawomir Sprawski; <br/><br/>Part III The Ideology of Tyranny; <br/>10. Pindar and Kingship Theory, Simon Hornblower; <br/>11. The Comic Pericles, James McGlew; <br/>12. Tyrannical Oligarchs at Athens, Lynette Mitchell; <br/>13. Plutarque et les tyrans siciliens, Claude Mosse; <br/>14. Caesar tyrannos: Cicero's Platonic reckoning with the Roman dictator, Ingo Gildenhard; Part IV The Limits of Tyranny; <br/>15. The Violence of the Thirty Tyrants, Andrew Wolpert; <br/>16. The Limits of Autocracy in the Fourth-Century BC Persian Empire, Stephen Ruzicka; <br/>17. Sulla the Weak Tyrant, Alexander Thein; <br/>Bibliography. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>07148621253  9780748621255 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rome (Empire)<br/>Greece<br/>Politics and government<br/>Dictators
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.3  / LEW/A