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The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 King and cosmos in Herodotus -- Herodotus' 'monarchical model' and the 'despotic template' -- Differentiating kings and tyrants -- Kings, custom and...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
: Taylor & Francis Group
, 2019
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| Series: | Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5940229 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 King and cosmos in Herodotus -- Herodotus' 'monarchical model' and the 'despotic template' -- Differentiating kings and tyrants -- Kings, custom and order: Herodotus and Heraclitus -- Kings and knowledge -- Structure and cyclicality -- Kingship in the constitution debate -- Herodotus' studies of kingship -- Deioces, the model king of the Medes -- Psammetichus and Egyptian kingship -- Amasis and the burdens of divine kingship -- Kingship at the limits of the Greek world -- Conclusion -- 2 Monarchy on the democratic stage -- The Athenian political imaginary and drama -- The good king in the polis -- The king and the coherence of the polity: Aeschylus' Persians -- The king as the focus of supplication -- Greeks and others: Aeschylus' Suppliants -- The democratic king deconstructed: Euripides' Suppliants -- Kingship in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus -- Kingship and autochthony -- Cosmology and comedy -- Conclusion -- 3 The discourse of kingship in classical Athenian thought -- Structuring the Athenian past in time and space -- The Athenian past in rhetoric and philosophy -- The focus on Theseus -- Isocrates' Theseus -- The king as rhetorical exemplar for citizens -- Conclusion -- 4 Kingship and Socratic thought -- Antisthenes and single-person rule -- Xenophon's account of the 'kingly art' -- The discourse of kingship in Xenophon's Socratic works -- The craft of kingship in the Memorabilia -- Kingship in the Oeconomicus -- Plato and kingship as a master art -- Socrates' 'political craft' -- Basilikē technē in the Euthydemus and Republic -- The hunt for basilikē technē -- Conclusion -- 5 Virtue and monarchy -- Isocrates' model of virtue monarchy: the kings of Salamis -- The qualities of monarchy -- The qualities of the king. Evagoras, myth and history -- Xenophon and virtue monarchy: the Cyropaedia -- Persians and Medes -- Cyrus on campaign -- Cyrus in victory -- Conclusion -- 6 Kingship in Plato's later political thought -- Kingship and time in the Statesman -- Cosmology and politics -- History and the Age of Zeus -- Kingship and craft -- Kingship and law -- Plato's account of historical process in the Timaeus/Critias -- Kingship and time in the Laws -- The development and decline of monarchical regimes -- Extreme forms of constitutions -- Replacing the structure: Laws IV -- Conclusion -- 7 'Total kingship' and the rule of law -- Aristotle's pambasileia and the metaphysics of monarchy -- Aristotle's discussion of monarchy -- Platonic and Aristotelian arguments against monarchy: Pol. 3.15-16 -- Historical examples -- The pambasileus in the political imaginary -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: the imaginary king and the metaphysics of political unity -- Bibliography -- Index of passages cited -- General index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (253 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780429552656 |
