Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought

by: Unruh, D.

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Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought

Daniel Unruh

Liverpool Studies in Ancient History

Talking to Tyrants breaks new ground in the study of Classical Greek history and political thought, exploring the previously unexamined question of how citizens of Greek city-states approached interaction with kings, tyrants, and other absolute rulers. Throughout history, states that value collective government and civic liberties have struggled with how to deal with communities that reject these values. Modern, western democracies continually debate how to reconcile their beliefs in human rights and public institutions with the apparent need to maintain contacts with a range of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes. Greek poleis of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE faced similar challenges.

Through a close reading of several Greek authors, in particular Herodotus, Xenophon, Isocrates and Plato, Talking to Tyrants details the different strategies that these authors depict, adopt, or recommend for enabling communication between the very different worlds of the Greek city state and the monarch?s court. The study is further informed by contemporary Intercultural Communications Theory, which provides a powerful framework for examining the ways in which individuals from different cultures and political systems interact.

Talking to Tyrants examines how Greek city-states of the fourth

and fifth centuries BC with democratic systems of government such as Athens communicated

with kings, tyrants and oligarchs, whose political structure and ideology wholly

differed from their own.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Intercultural Interaction in Herodotus and the Fifth Century
Chapter 2: Re-educating the Tyrant in Xenophon?s Hiero
Chapter 3: Intercultural Communication in Xenophon?s Anabasis
Chapter 4: Isokrates: Making Laws for Monarchs
Chapter 5: A Platonic Rejoinder
Chapter 6: From Theory to Practice: Talking to Tyrants in Demosthenes and his Contemporaries
Epilogue: A Lasting Legacy

Daniel Unruh has a PhD in Ancient History from Cambridge, and teaches at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge, and at CityLit. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, he now lives and works in the UK.

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