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2012 | 15: Leadership in Antiquity: Langauge - Institutions - Representations | 167-189

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Tyrannoi and Tyrants on the tragic stage

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The paper analyses the terms tyrannos and basileus in both Greek politics and Greek drama, taking under special scrutiny various connotations and associations of the terms tyrannos and tyrannis in the language of Attic tragedy.

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  • University of Silesia, Katowice

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