Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Abbreviations x
6. Figures and Tables xiii
7. 1. Introduction 1
8. Part I The making of tyranny
9. 2. Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome 17
10. 3. Ducetius and fifth-century Sicilian tyranny 33
11. 4. Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic 49
12. 5. Money and the Great Man in the fourth century BC: military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service 65
13. 6. From Agathocles to Hieron II: the birth and development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily 77
14. Part II Tyranny and politics
15. 7. Tyrants and the polis: migration, identity and urban development in Sicily 95
16. 8. Synchronicity: the local and the panhellenic within Sicilian tyranny 119
17. 9. Alexander of Pherae: infelix tyrant 135
18. Part III The ideology of tyranny
19. 10. Pindar and kingship theory 151
20. 11. The comic Pericles 164
21. 12. Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens 178
22. 13. Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants 188
23. 14. Reckoning with tyranny: Greek thoughts on Caesar in Cicero’s Letters to Atticus in early 49 197
24. Part IV The limits of tyranny
25. 15. The violence of the Thirty Tyrants 213
26. 16. The politics of Persian autocracy, 424–334 BC 224
27. 17. Sulla the weak tyrant 238
28. Bibliography 250
29. Index 278