The sorrow and the pity: a prolegomenon to a history of Athens under the Peisistratids, c. 560-510 B.C.

The sorrow and the pity: a prolegomenon to a history of Athens under the Peisistratids, c. 560-510 B.C.

Description

Fifth century BCE Athenians were especially hostile to tyrants and tyranny as a result of Peisistratid treachery during the Persian Wars. Their hostility engendered a persistent refusal to acknowledge the truth of collaboration during the tyranny and so a revisionism which fundamentally affected the tradition about it. This study first examines the psychology of mass revisionism and of the early fifth century Athenians leading to their transfigurement of the tyrannicide/s; genos- and demos-traditions and topoi relating to the tyranny affirm and further define the distortion and deformative process affecting the historical record. This work aims to establish better bases for reconstructing Peisistratid history, but also for comprehending the psychology of Athenian antityrannism.

ISBN

3515063188

Publication Date

1993

Publisher

Franz Steiner Verlag

City

Stuttgart

Keywords

Greece-Athens, Despotism, Greek history, History, Ancient

Disciplines

European History

Comments

Lavelle, Brian M. The Sorrow and the Pity : a Prolegomenon to a History of Athens Under the Peisistratids, c. 560-510 B.C. F. Steiner, 1993.

The sorrow and the pity: a prolegomenon to a history of Athens under the Peisistratids, c. 560-510 B.C.

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