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Author Lavelle, Brian M., 1951-

Title Fame, money, and power : the rise of Peisistratos and "democratic" tyranny at Athens / B.M. Lavelle
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 370 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction -- The path to fame : the early life and career of Peisistratos -- Money, persuasion, and alliance : the early tyrannies of Peisistratos -- The tide of wealth and power : Peisistratos' exile, return, and "rooting" of the tyranny -- Summary -- The site of the attic Deme Philaidai -- The environment of eastern Attika in the sixth century B.C.E. -- Prosopography -- Peisistratos' chronology -- The origins of the Herodotean parties -- The site of Rhaikelos -- Peisistratos and the purification of Delos : actions and intentions -- Sophokles and Herodotos on the foundations of tyranny : Oedipous Tyrannos 540-42
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Pisistratus, 605 B.C.?-528 B.C. or 527 B.C.
SUBJECT Pisistratus, 605 B.C.?-528 B.C. or 527 B.C. fast
Subject Dictators -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Ancient.
HISTORY -- General.
Dictators
Democratie.
Tirannie.
Politieke verandering.
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- History -- Age of Tyrants, 560-510 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003933
Subject Greece -- Athens
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780472025817
0472025813
9780472114245
0472114247
1282593870
9781282593879
9786612593871
6612593873