Basileis, tyrans et magistrats

Ruzé, Françoise

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“…The following abbreviations are also used: Buck = C. D. Buck, The Greek Dialects, 3rd edition, Chicago, 1955; IvO = W. Dittenberger and K. Purgold, Inschriften von Olympia, Berlin, 1896; ML = R. Meiggs and D. M. Lewis, eds., A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, revised edition, Oxford, 1988. Quotation: Lane Fox 2000: 38. The more significant general works on the subject include: Plaß 1859; Ure 1922; Lenschau 1948;Berve 1954;1967;White 1955;Andrewes 1956;Mossé 1969;Pleket 1969;Drews 1972;Lanza 1977;Kinzl 1979b;Ruzé 1989;Barceló 1993;Giorgini 1993;McGlew 1993;Cawkwell 1995;de Libero 1996;Salmon 1997. For a critical tour d'horizon, see de Libero 1996: 11-19.…”

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BeforeTurannoiWere Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History

Anderson¹

2005

Classical Antiquity

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According to classical and postclassical sources, the early Greekturannoi were, by definition, illegitimate rulers who overturned existing political arrangements and installed rogue monarchic regimes in their place. And on this one fundamental point at least, modern observers of archaicturannides seem to have little quarrel with their ancient informants. To this day, it remains axiomatic that Cypselus, Peisistratus, and the rest were autocrats who gained power by usurpation. Whatever their individual accomplishments, they were still, in a word, "tyrants." Relying mostly on evidence from the contemporary literary and material records, my paper aims to challenge this time-honored conventional wisdom and restore the firstturannoi to the political mainstream.

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BeforeTurannoiWere Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History

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2005

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The Tyrants’ Cousins. Ruling Practices and Political Concepts between Anatolia and Early Greece

Santini

2024

Klio

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Summary This paper addresses the vexed question of the origins and nature of archaic Greek tyranny by focusing on the conceptual roots of the phenomenon, namely by investigating the political significance and implications of the Luwian notion of tarrawanni-, ‘just, justice,’ the term from which Greek tyrannos is believed to derive. Firstly, the paper shows how both Neo-Hittite and early Greek societies display a similar attitude towards justice as a key element for political legitimation. After concluding, however, that this commonality is not enough to explain why the Greeks borrowed the concept of tarrawanni- as tyrannos, the paper moves on to examining what specific way of doing politics is captured by the two concepts, arguing that they identify a type of political actor that exercises supreme powers independently of any kind of institutional arrangement. Finally, the paper discusses reasons, modalities, contexts, and timing of the transmission of Luwian tarrawanni- into Greek.

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Délibération Et Pouvoir Dans La Cité Grecque

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Basileis, tyrans et magistrats

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BeforeTurannoiWere Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History

BeforeTurannoiWere Tyrants: Rethinking a Chapter of Early Greek History

The Tyrants’ Cousins. Ruling Practices and Political Concepts between Anatolia and Early Greece

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