The discourse of kingship in classical Greece:
This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts.It explores...
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| Summary: | This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts.It explores the notion of kingship offered by historians such as Herodotus, as well as dramatists writing for the Athenian stage, paying particular attention to dramatic depictions of the unique capabilities of Theseus in uniting the city in the figure of the ‘democratic king’. It also discusses kingship in Greek philosophy: the Socratics’ identification of an ‘art of kingship’, and Xenophon and Isocrates’ model of ‘virtue monarchy’. In turn, these allow a rereading of explorations of kingship and excellence in Plato’s later political thought, seen as a critique of these models, and also in Aristotle’s account of total kingship or pambasileia, treated here as a counterfactual device developed to explore the epistemic benefits of democracy.This book offers a fascinating insight into the institution of monarchy in classical Greek thought and society, both for those working on Greek philosophy and politics, and also for students of the history of political thought |
| Physical Description: | vii, 242 Seiten 470 grams |
| ISBN: | 9781032240060 |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 King and cosmos in Herodotus viii ix 1 13 Herodotus’ ‘monarchical model’ and the ‘despotic template’ 14 Differentiating kings and tyrants 16 Kings, custom and orden Herodotus and Heraclitus 17 Kings and knowledge 19 Structure and cyclicality 20 Kingship in the constitution debate 21 Herodotus’studies ofkingship 23 Deioces, the model king of the Medes 23 Psammetichus and Egyptian kingship 26 Amasis and the burdens of divine kingship 28 Kingship at the limits of the Greek world 30 Conclusion 32 2 Monarchy on the democratic stage The Athenian political imaginary and drama 40 The good king in the polis 41 The king and the coherence ofthe polity: Aeschylus ’Persians 41 The king as thefocus ofsupplication 44 Greeks and others: Aeschylus’ Suppliants 45 The democratic king deconstructed; Euripides’ Suppliants 47 Kingship in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus 49 Kingship and autochthony 52 Cosmology and comedy 55 Conclusion 61 39
vi Contents 3 The discourse of kingship in classical Athenian thought 68 Structuring the Athenian past in time and space 70 The Athenian past in rhetoric and philosophy 74 The focus on Theseus 76 Isocrates’Theseus 77 The king as rhetorical exemplar for citizens 84 Conclusion 86 4 Kingship and Socratic thought 92 Antisthenes and single-person rule 94 Xenophon ’s account ofthe kingly art ’ 97 The discourse of kingship in Xenophon’s Socratic works 98 The craft ofkingship in the Memorabilia 100 Kingship in the Oeconomicus 104 Plato and kingship as a master art 106 Socrates’‘political craft’ 108 Pasilikę technë in the Euthydemus and Republic 110 The hunt for basilikē technē 112 Conclusion 115 5 Virtue and monarchy 122 Isocrates’model ofvirtue monarchy: the kings ofSalamis 123 The qualities of monarchy 125 The qualities of the king 128 Evagoras, myth and history 132 Xenophon and virtue monarchy : the Cyropaedia 134 Persians and Medes 136 Cyrus on campaign 138 Cyrus in victory 141 Conclusion 144 6 Kingship in Plato’s later political thought Kingship and time in the Statesman 152 Cosmology and politics 154 History and the Age of Zeus 158 Kingship and craft 158 Kingship and law 160 Plato s account of historical process in the Timaeus/Critias 162 Kingship and time in the Laws 166 151
Contents vii The development and decline of monarchical regimes 167 Extreme forms of constitutions 169 Replacing the structure: Laws IV 171 Conclusion 173 7 ‘Total kingship’ and the rule of law 179 Aristotle ’s pambasileia and the metaphysics of monarchy 179 Aristotle’s discussion of monarchy 183 Platonic and Aristotelian arguments against monarchy: Pol. 3.15-16 185 Historical examples 187 The pambasileus in the political imaginary 188 Conclusion 191 Conclusion: the imaginary king and the metaphysics of political unity 197 Bibliography Index ofpassages cited General index 199 231 239
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