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1 online resource (354 pages) |
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Intro; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ANTIQUITY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; 2 "AS HE DISREGARDED THE LAW, HE WAS REPLACED DURING HIS OWN LIFETIME"; 3 "RULERS BY THE GRACE OF GOD", "LIAR KINGS", AND "ORIENTAL DESPOTS": (ANTI- )MONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ACHAEMENID IRAN; 4 ANATOMY OF THE MONSTER: THE DISCOURSE OF TYRANNY IN ANCIENT GREECE; 5 HERO, GOD OR TYRANT? ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EARLY HELLENISTICPERIOD; 6 DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES AND ATHENS: RULER CULT AND ANTIMONARCHIC NARRATIVES IN PLUTARCH'S LIFE OF DEMETRIUS |
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7 ROMAN DISCOURSES AGAINST THE MONARCHY IN THE 3RD AND 2ND CENTURY BCE: THE EVIDENCE OF FABIUS PICTOR AND ENNIUS8 CONSORT OR DESPOT? HOW TO DEAL WITH A QUEEN AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PRINCIPATE; 9 PENELOPE'S WEB, OR: HOW TO BECOME A BAD EMPEROR POST MORTEM; 10 IDLENESS. MONARCHIC AND ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL ORDER; 11 JOSEPHUS ON HASMONEAN KINGSHIP; 12 'IN SEARCH OF GOOD EMPERORS.'EMPERORS, CAESARS, AND USURPERS IN THE MIRROR OF ANTIMONARCHIC PATTERNS IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA -SOME CONSIDERATIONS |
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13 PROCOPIUS, HIS PREDECESSORS, AND THE GENESIS OF THE ANECDOTACONTRIBUTORS; GENERAL INDEX |
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Despotism -- History -- To 1500.
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Despotism. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Monarchy -- History -- To 1500.
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Monarchy. |
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Kings and rulers, Ancient.
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Kings and rulers, Ancient. |
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Abuse of administrative power -- History -- To 1500.
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Abuse of administrative power. |
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Power (Social sciences) -- History -- To 1500.
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Power (Social sciences) |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Havener, Wolfgang.
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Print version: Börm, Henning. Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, ©2016 |
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3515110968 |
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9783515110969 (electronic book) |
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