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Wysłany: Śro 18:19, 09 Mar 2011 Temat postu: On the Makaloa Mat LondonJack Publishedaankep |
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tyrants one could consider who are not included here
other places and periodsother interpretations; a collection of this
kind cannot hope to be exhaustive. But it can show what can be
achieved by the application of a different model for understanding
tyranny. The aim of this projectwhen it beganwas to place tyran-
nical rule centre stageand to analyse it on its own merits; to treat
autocracy as a positive choice instead of a political failureand to
understand the ways in which ancient writers con?gured itusing
their past to interpret their present. It also aimed to end the arti?cial
separation of a small group of rulers under the name of ‘tyrants’
recognising that autocratic rulers appear in numerous guises and
under different titlesnot only in archaic Greecebut throughout clas-
sical antiquity. I hope that this collection will encourage a clearer
focus on tyranny in all its formsand its place in the history of polit-
ical thoughtincluding the cross-cultural comparisons which the
ancients themselves made.
It should be obvious that in antiquity tyranny was not a mono-
lithicideabut an idea created and constantly adapted by historians
with multivalent meaning and application. It might app [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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