
The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece
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Probing into ancient perspectives on the legitimacy and legality of rule, the title also explores the relationship between ruling and law. Law, personified as 'king' (nomos basileus), came to be seen as the ultimate source of sovereignty especially as expressed through the constitutional machinery of the city, and became an important balance and constraint for personal rule.
Finally, Heroic Rulers demonstrates that monarchy, which is generally thought to have disappeared before the end of the archaic period, remained a valid political option from the Early Iron Age through to the Hellenistic period.
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Chapter One: Basileia and tyrannis: exploding myth
Chapter Two: Arete and the right to rule
Chapter Three: Ruling Families
Chapter Four: Rulers in the polis
Chapter Five: Epilogue: Athens, ruling and arete
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