Death to Tyrants!: Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny

278 Pages·2013·6.21 MB·English

by  David Teegarden

Death to Tyrants!
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Death to Tyrants!
Ancient Greek Democracy and the
Struggle against Tyranny
David A. Teegarden
Princeton University Press
Princeton & Oxford
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copyright © 2014 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William street, Princeton, new Jersey 08540
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Jacket Art: Attic stammos. Harmodios and Aristogeiton murder the tyrant Hipparchos.
ca. 470 B.c., L 515 © Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg,
Germany. Photo: P. neckermann.
All rights reserved
Library of congress cataloging-in-Publication Data
teegarden, David Arlo, 1973–
Death to tyrants! : ancient Greek democracy and the struggle against tyranny / David A.
teegarden.
pages cm
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-0-691-15690-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. tyrannicide (Greek
law) 2. Greece—History—Age of tyrants, 7th–6th centuries. i. title.
KL4372.t44 2014
342.3808ʹ54—dc23 2013015337
British Library cataloging- in- Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in Minion Pro and Myriad Pro
Printed on acid- free paper ∞
Printed in the United states of America
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For Paola
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
introduction 1
Part I The Invention of Tyrant- Killing Legislation
chapter 1
The Decree of Demophantos 15
Part II Tyrant- Killing Legislation in the Late Classical Period
chapter 2
The eretrian tyrant- Killing Law 57
chapter 3
The Law of eukrates 85
Part III Tyrant- Killing Legislation in the Early Hellenistic Period
chapter 4
The Anti- tyranny Dossier from eresos 115
chapter 5
The Philites stele from erythrai 142
chapter 6
The ilian tyrant- Killing Law 173
conclusion 215
Appendix
The Number and Geographic Distribution of Different Regime Types
from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Periods 221
Bibliography 237
Index 249
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Illustrations
Figures
Figure 1.1. roman copy of the Kritios and nesiotes statue group. 33
Figure 1.2. Panathenaic prize amphora, circa 402. 46
Figure 3.1. Law of eukrates, 337/6. 107
Figure A1. regime type occurences over time. 223
Figure A2. regime type distribution over time. 223
Tables
table 1.1. The Law of eukrates and the Decree of Demophantos 51
table 4.1. Persian and Macedonian Games 123
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