Table Of ContentAncient Tyranny
Edited by Sian Lewis
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors viii
Abbreviations x
Figures and Tables xiii
1. Introduction 1
Sian Lewis
Part I The making of tyranny
2. Kingship and tyranny in archaic Rome 17
Fay Glinister
3. Ducetius and fifth-century Sicilian tyranny 33
Trinity Jackman
4. Adfectatio regni in the Roman Republic 49
Christopher Smith
5. Money and the Great Man in the fourth century bc: 65
military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary
service
Matthew Trundle
6. From Agathocles to Hieron II: the birth and 77
development of basileia in Hellenistic Sicily
Efrem Zambon
Part II Tyranny and politics
7. Tyrants and the polis: migration, identity and urban 95
development in Sicily
Kathryn Lomas
8. Synchronicity: the local and the panhellenic within 119
Sicilian tyranny
Sarah E. Harrell
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9. Alexander of Pherae: infelix tyrant 135
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Slawomir Sprawski
Part III The ideology of tyranny
10. Pindar and kingship theory 151
Simon Hornblower
11. The comic Pericles 164
James McGlew
12. Tyrannical oligarchs at Athens 178
Lynette Mitchell
13. Plutarch and the Sicilian tyrants 188
Claude Mossé (translated by Robin Mackenzie)
14. Reckoning with tyranny: Greek thoughts on Caesar in 197
Cicero’s Letters to Atticus in early 49
Ingo Gildenhard
Part IV The limits of tyranny
15. The violence of the Thirty Tyrants 213
Andrew Wolpert
16. The politics of Persian autocracy, 424–334 bc 224
Stephen Ruzicka
17. Sulla the weak tyrant 238
Alexander Thein
Bibliography 250
Index 278
Acknowledgements
This collection of essays had its origin in a conference, ‘Tyrants, Kings,
Dynasts and Generals: Modes of Autocracy in the Classical Period’,
held at Cardiff University in July 2003. I should like to thank all those
who participated in the conference and made it both valuable and
enjoyable. Thanks are especially due to Christopher Tuplin and Roger
Brock, for both their contribution to the conference, and their encour-
agement of the original idea. The conference was generously sup-
ported by the British Academy, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the University of Wales
Institute of Classics and Ancient History, and the School of History
and Archaeology at Cardiff University. I would like to thank my col-
leagues in Ancient History at Cardiff, particularly Louis Rawlings and
Nick Fisher, for their support of the project, and the School of History
and Archaeology’s Departmental Administrator, Elizabeth Walker, for
her invaluable assistance in organising the conference and ensuring its
smooth running. Finally, my thanks are due to Christopher Smith and
John Davey, for smoothing the path to publication with Edinburgh
University Press, and to James Dale for his support through the
process of preparation.
Sian Lewis
May 2005
Contributors
Dr Ingo Gildenhard is a Lecturer in Classics at King’s College
London.
Dr Fay Glinister is a Research Fellow in the Department of History
at University College London.
Dr Sarah E. Harrell is Assistant Professor of Classics at Trinity
College, Hartford.
Professor Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient
History at University College London.
Dr Trinity Jackman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows
in the Humanities, Columbia University.
Dr Kathryn Lomas is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology
at University College London.
Dr Sian Lewis is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of
St Andrews.
Professor James McGlew is an Associate Professor in the Department
of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Dr Lynette G. Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter.
Professor Claude Mossé is a member of the Centre Louis Gernet at
the École des Hautes Études, Paris, and Professeur honoraire of the
University of Paris-VIII.
Professor Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the
University of St Andrews.
Dr Sl⁄awomir Sprawski is a Lecturer at the Institute of History in the
Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
Professor Stephen Ruzicka is an Associate Professor in the
Department of History at the University of North Carolina,
Greensboro.
Dr Alexander Thein is a lecturer in the Department of Classics,
University College Dublin.
Dr Matthew Trundle is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics
at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Contributors ix
Professor Andrew Wolpert is Associate Professor in the Department
of Classics at the University of Florida.
Dr Efrem Zambon was recently a Research Fellow in the Department
of Classics at the University of Padua.
Abbreviations
ACD Acta Classica Universitatis Scientiarum
Debreceniensis
AIIN Annali dell’ Istituto Italiano di Numismatica
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJP American Journal of Philology
AMI Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran
ANSMN American Numismatic Society: Museum Notes
AntK Antike Kunst
ARV J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters,
2nd edn, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963
BCAR Bullettino della Commissione archeologica
comunale di Roma
BCH Bulletin de correspondance hellénique
BTCGI Bibliographia Topographia della Colonizzazione
Greca in Italia e nelle Isole Terreniche
C&M Classica et Mediaevalia
CAH2 Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn
CIE Corpus Inscriptionum Etruscarum
CJ Classical Journal
ClAnt Classical Antiquity
CPh Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
CW Classical World
Dittenberger W. Dittenberger, Sylloge Inscriptionum
Gracecarum, 3rd edn, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1915–24
DK H. Diels and W. Kranz, Fragmente der
Vorsokratiker, 6th edn, Berlin: Weidmann, 1952
FGrHist F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen
Historiker, Leiden: Brill, 1923– [followed by
author number and fragment number]
G&R Greece and Rome
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
IG Inscriptiones Graecae
IGA (Roehl) H. Roehl, Inscriptiones Graecae Antiquissimae,
Berlin: Berolini, 1882
JDAI Jahrbuch des deutschen archäologischen Instituts
Abbreviations xi
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JNG Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte
JRA Journal of Roman Archaeology
JRS Journal of Roman Studies
KA Poetae Comici Graeci, ed. R. Kassel and
C. Austin, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1983–
MGR Miscellanea greca e romana
ML R. Meiggs and D. M. Lewis, A Selection of Greek
Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth
Century BC, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969
[followed by inscription number]
Michel C. Michel, Recueil d’inscriptions grecques,
Hildesheim: Olms, 1976
Mus. Helv. Museum Helveticum
NAC Numismatica e antichità classiche
Num. Chron. Numismatic Chronicle
ORF4 H. Malcovati, Oratorum Romanorum Fragmenta,
4th edn, Turin: Paravia, 1967
P.Oxy. Oxyrhynchus Papyri
PCPS Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society
PMG D. L. Page (ed.), Poetae Melici Graeci, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1962
PP La Parola del Passato
QUCC Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica
RBN Revue belge de numismatique
RE A. Fr. von Pauly, rev. G. Wissowa et al.,
Real-Encyclopädie der klassischen
Altertumswissenschaft, Stuttgart and Munich:
Metzler/Drückenmuller, 1894–1980
REA Revue des études anciennes
REL Revue des études latines
RhM Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
RSA Rivista Storica dell’Antichità
Schw. Munz. Schweizerische Münzblätter
SCI Scripta Classica Israelica
SDHI Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris
SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
SHA Scriptores Historiae Augustae
TAPA Transactions of the American Philological
Association
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TLE2 M. Pallottino,Testimonia Linguae Etruscae,
2nd edn, Florence: Nuova Italia, 1968
Tod M. N. Tod, A Selection of Greek Historical
Inscriptions, vol. 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1950
TrGF B. Snell et al. (eds), Tragicorum Graecorum
Fragmenta, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and
Ruprecht, 1971–
WS Wiener Studien
ZPE Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
