Börm Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-515-11096-9
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 3, 352 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Studies in Ancient Monarchies.

When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of the – real or merely anticipated – criticism against the background of which monarchic legitimization was expressed: what conditions, what elements, and what strategies were characteristic of a critical discussion of monocracy in antiquity, and to what extent was the relationship between ruler ideology and antimonarchic sentiment marked by mutual dependence? What significance did the eternal background noise possess which as a contre-discourse compelled rulers in Egypt, Persia, Judea, Greece and Rome to justify themselves again and again?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Börm, Henning

Weitere Mitwirkende

Havener, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;8
2;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;6
3;1 ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ANTIQUITY: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION;10
4;2 “AS HE DISREGARDED THE LAW, HE WAS REPLACED DURING HIS OWN LIFETIME”;26
5;3 “RULERS BY THE GRACE OF GOD”, “LIAR KINGS”, AND “ORIENTAL DESPOTS”: (ANTI-)MONARCHIC DISCOURSE IN ACHAEMENID IRAN;46
6;4 ANATOMY OF THE MONSTER: THE DISCOURSE OF TYRANNY IN ANCIENT GREECE;68
7;5 HERO, GOD OR TYRANT? ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE EARLY HELLENISTICPERIOD;86
8;6 DEMETRIUS POLIORCETES AND ATHENS: RULER CULT AND ANTIMONARCHIC NARRATIVES IN PLUTARCH’S LIFE OF DEMETRIUS;114
9;7 ROMAN DISCOURSES AGAINST THE MONARCHY IN THE 3RD AND 2ND CENTURY BCE: THE EVIDENCE OF FABIUS PICTOR AND ENNIUS;154
10;8 CONSORT OR DESPOT? HOW TO DEAL WITH A QUEEN AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PRINCIPATE;182
11;9 PENELOPE’S WEB, OR: HOW TO BECOME A BAD EMPEROR POST MORTEM;216
12;10 IDLENESS. MONARCHIC AND ANTIMONARCHIC DISCOURSES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROMAN IMPERIAL ORDER;236
13;11 JOSEPHUS ON HASMONEAN KINGSHIP;250
14;12 ‘IN SEARCH OF GOOD EMPERORS.’EMPERORS, CAESARS, AND USURPERS IN THE MIRROR OF ANTIMONARCHIC PATTERNS IN THE HISTORIA AUGUSTA –SOME CONSIDERATIONS;270
15;13 PROCOPIUS, HIS PREDECESSORS, AND THE GENESIS OF THE ANECDOTA;306
16;CONTRIBUTORS;348
17;GENERAL INDEX;350

Über Autor(innen)

Börm, Henning
Henning Börm is professor of Ancient History at the University of Rostock.