Dēmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage

Kallet, Lisa

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“…Further, by the end of the century, Thucydides (1956) will report a taunt, supposed to have originated not too far from the time of the PB performance, that Athens itself had become a polis tyrannos (1: 124) -i.e., that the inner democracy is made possible by rapacious tyranny in their dominions abroad (cf. the rich Raaflaub, 1979;Kallet, 2003;and Boedeker and Raaflaub, 1998). Actually, in the mid-440s -a time that increasingly looks like a watershed -a law by Pericles closed the earlier swiftly rising citizenship to offspring by Athenian father plus mother only; it turned into a hereditary privilege, a closed and eventually much shrinking circle.…”

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A long hope: the Prometheus Counter-Project

Suvin

2023

R. Ilha do Desterro A J. of En. Language Lit. in English and Cu

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By offering a reading of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound, and of the post-Aeschylus tradition of the myth of Prometheus which highlights its revisions as imagined by Karl Marx and Percy Shelley, among others, this paper seeks to explore how to grasp, amid our danger and despair, the prominent poetic and cognitive view of a similar cataclysm from the past, as a lesson to the present. The route to do so encompasses a revisitation of the connections between theatre and democracy in ancient Greece; a consideration of the variations of the themes of knowledge, injustice and tyranny, material civilization and its control and the unbowed personal will to resist oppression, all evoked by the myth of Prometheus; and teasing out the main lineaments of a meaning for the play for an endangered Athenian democracy, as staged around 440 as well as for authors who have recycled its main theme throughout centuries, and finally for us today. It ends by giving pride of place to a Promethean hope, a long hope, arisen from suffering and wedded to cognition, which has crossed centuries and reached our times in urgency. The work is, of course, a provisional statement: a contribution.

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A long hope: the Prometheus Counter-Project

Suvin

2023

R. Ilha do Desterro A J. of En. Language Lit. in English and Cu

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“…On the different evaluative slants with which 'tyranny' could be used, seeKallet (2003);Raaflaub (2003).…”

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A Positive Doctrine of Tyranny? The Rule of Law Vs. The Rule of a Tyrant in Archaic and Classical Greece

Joyce

2022

Antichthon

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The origins and definition of tyranny in ancient Greece have been debated in scholarship for well over three quarters of a century. Recently, it has been argued that tyranny as a political idea was not anathematised until late and that in the fifth century BCE and before, tyranny comported no negative judgment. While correct to point out that the distinction between ‘king’ and ‘tyrant’ in literature predating Aristotle was not clearly delineated, scholars have often failed to ask the more fundamental question of why that distinction was essential for Aristotle. This essay argues that Aristotle drew upon a much older intellectual tradition which saw tyranny as hateful and contrary to the rule of law. Though tyrants in many cases ruled lawfully, a distinction must be drawn between ‘lawful’ rule, which some but not all tyrants practised, and the rule of law, which anathematised tyranny.

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A Companion to Greek Literature

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Dēmos Tyrannos: Wealth, Power, and Economic Patronage

Cited by 21 publications

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A long hope: the Prometheus Counter-Project

A long hope: the Prometheus Counter-Project

A Positive Doctrine of Tyranny? The Rule of Law Vs. The Rule of a Tyrant in Archaic and Classical Greece

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