James
F. McGlew, TYRANNY AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN ANCIENT GREECE, 1993
James F. McGlew, “Tyranny and Political Culture in
Ancient Greece”, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, pp. 234, 1993.
(Τα
κεφάλαια του βιβλίου με τα υποκεφάλαια).
Introduction:
Tyranny
and History.
Chapter
One:
Tyrannus
fulminatus: Power and Praise.
Stories of Founders. («οικισταί» ή «αρχηγέται»).
Foundation legends.
Tyrannical Memories.
The Poetics of Power: Pindar and Bacchylides.
Chapter
Two:
Justice
and Power: The Language of Early Greek Tyranny.
Kings in Homer and Hesiod.
Justice and the Cypselids.
Punishment and Power in Athens and Mytilene.
The Punishment of Tyrants.
Chapter
Three:
The
Lawgiver’s Struggle with Tyranny: Solon and the Excluded Middle.
Solon’s Justice
Solon’s Persona as
Athenian Mediator.
Solon as Political
Failure.
Chapter
Four:
Master
and Slave: The Fall of Tyranny.
Tyranny and
Liberation.
Athens and its Tyrannicides.
(Αρμόδιος και Αριστογείτων).
Chapter Five:
Narratives
of Autonomy: Greek Founders.
Quests for
Purification and Legitimacy.
Tyrannical Founders.
Chapter
Six:
Lovers
of the City: Tyranny and Democracy in Classical Athens.
Decree proposed by Demophantos in 410.
Pericles’ Funeral Oration
(«ελευθερία», «ερασταί της πόλεως», «φιλόπολις»)
Alcibiades’ behavior is a distortion of Pericles’
image of citizenship.
Tyranny and Tragedy
Aeschylus’
Oresteia.
Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus Colonus.
Plato’s Republic and
the Extirpation of Tyranny.
Afterword:
Justice
and Liberation.