Morgan Kathryn A. Popular tyranny: sovereignty and its discontents in ancient Greece

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-0-292-72231-6; ISBN: 0-292-75276-8.The nature of authority and rulership was a central concern in ancient Greece, where the figure of the king or tyrant and the sovereignty associated with him remained a powerful focus of political and philosophical debate even as Classical Athens developed the world's first democracy. This collection of essays examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by internationally known archaeologists, literary critics, and historians.Introduction (Kathryn A. Morgan)
Imaginary Kings: Alternatives to Monarchy in Early Greece (Sarah Morris)
Form and Content: The Question of Tyranny in Herodotus (Carolyn Dewald)
Stick and Glue: The Function of Tyranny in Fifth-Century Athenian Democracy (Kurt A. Raaflaub)
Tragic Tyranny (Richard Seaford)
Dêmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage (Lisa Kallet)
Demos, Demagogue, Tyrant in Attic Old Comedy (Jeffrey Henderson)
The Tyranny of the Audience in Plato and Isocrates (Kathryn A. Morgan)
Tyrant-killing as Therapeutic Stasis: A Political Debate in Images and Texts (Josiah Ober)
Changing the Discourse (Robin Osborne)
Conclusion (Kathryn A. Morgan)Notes on Contributors
General Index
Index Locorum