2024
DOI: 10.1515/klio-2023-0027
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The Tyrants’ Cousins. Ruling Practices and Political Concepts between Anatolia and Early Greece

Marco Santini

Abstract: 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 … Show more

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