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The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece
Lynette Gail Mitchell
出版
Bloomsbury Academic
, 2013
ISBN
1472555805
9781472555809
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8M3qvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where rule was in some sense shared within the family or clan. Heroic Rulers examines reasons why both personal and clan-based rule was particularly unstable and its core tension with the competitive nature.
