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ISBN: 9023404939 9789023404934 Year: 1974 Publisher: Amsterdam Bezige Bij

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Show bizz in Vlaanderen : de 100 rijkste artiesten
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ISBN: 9056174444 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leuven Van Halewyck


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König Hieron II.
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Year: 1959 Publisher: München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,

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Tyrannosaurid paleobiology
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ISBN: 0253009472 9780253009470 9780253009302 0253009308 9781299667655 1299667651 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bloomington

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The opening of an exhibit focused on ""Jane,"" a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus fragilis and ""Sir William"" and the generic status of Nanotyrannus; theropod teeth, pedal proportions, brain size, and craniocervical function; soft tissue reconstruction, including that of ""Jane""; paleopathology and tyrannosaurid claws; dating the ""Jane"" site; and tyrannosaur feeding


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Kaiser Domitian - Der Kampf um seine Nachfolge und um seine Göttlichkeit : longe tunc illi divinitas sua
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ISBN: 9783506703262 3506703269 3657703268 9783657703265 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paderborn Brill | Schöningh

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Das Urteil über Kaiser Domitian (81 - 96 n. Chr.) schwankt stark. Während man ihn früher den Quellen entsprechend als grausamen Tyrannen sah, der von seinen Untertanen göttliche Verehrung erzwang, versuchte die moderne Wissenschaft eine Ehrenrettung: Domitian als erfolgreicher Herrscher, dessen Bild von der missgünstigen Nachwelt verdüstert wurde. Die überlieferten heftigen Konflikte seiner letzten Jahre fügen sich hier jedoch nicht ein. Die vorliegende Studie stellt seine Bemühungen um Divinität in den Kontext der für die Herrschaftssicherung entscheidenden, aber prekären Nachfolgefrage; sie rekonstruiert seine (gescheiterte) Strategie, diesen Kampf mit dem um seine Göttlichkeit zu verbinden.


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Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos : New Light on Archaic Greece
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ISBN: 9783515109000 Year: 2014 Publisher: Stuttgart Franz Steiner Verlag

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Caligula : a biography
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ISBN: 9780520248953 0520248953 0520287592 0520943147 1283331837 9786613331830 9780520943148 9780520287594 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,

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The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in gold leaf. He forced men and women of high rank to have sex with him, turned part of his palace into a brothel, and committed incest with his sisters. He wanted to make his horse a consul. Torture and executions were the order of the day. Both modern and ancient interpretations have concluded from this alleged evidence that Caligula was insane. But was he? This biography tells a different story of the well-known emperor. In a deft account written for a general audience, Aloys Winterling opens a new perspective on the man and his times. Basing Caligula on a thorough new assessment of the ancient sources, he sets the emperor's story into the context of the political system and the changing relations between the senate and the emperor during Caligula's time and finds a new rationality explaining his notorious brutality.

The Legend of Krishna
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ISBN: 0349113424 Year: 1976 Publisher: London Abacus / Sphere Books Ltd


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Death to tyrants! : ancient Greek democracy and the struggle against tyranny
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ISBN: 0691156905 130604605X 1400848539 9780691156903 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press,

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Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness the dynamics of mass uprisings and preserve popular democratic rule in the face of anti-democratic threats. He presents detailed historical and sociopolitical analyses of each law and considers a variety of issues: What is the nature of an anti-democratic threat? How would various provisions of the laws help pro-democrats counter those threats? And did the laws work? Teegarden argues that tyrant-killing legislation facilitated pro-democracy mobilization both by encouraging brave individuals to strike the first blow against a nondemocratic regime and by convincing others that it was safe to follow the tyrant killer's lead. Such legislation thus deterred anti-democrats from staging a coup by ensuring that they would be overwhelmed by their numerically superior opponents. Drawing on modern social science models, Teegarden looks at how the institution of public law affects the behavior of individuals and groups, thereby exploring the foundation of democracy's persistence in the ancient Greek world. He also provides the first English translation of the tyrant-killing laws from Eretria and Ilion. By analyzing crucial ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation, Death to Tyrants! explains how certain laws enabled citizens to draw on collective strength in order to defend and preserve their democracy in the face of motivated opposition.

Plato's democratic entanglements : Athenian politics and the practice of philosophy
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ISBN: 0691043663 0691158584 9786612767128 1400823749 1282767127 1400812720 9781400812721 9781282767126 9781400823741 9780691043661 1400805473 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and public life, as well as a set of governing institutions. She proposes that while Plato charts tensions between the claims of democratic legitimacy and philosophical truth, he also exhibits a striking attraction to four practices central to Athenian democratic politics: intense antityrantism, frank speaking, public funeral oratory, and theater-going. By juxtaposing detailed examination of these aspects of Athenian democracy with analysis of the figurative language, dramatic structure, and arguments of the dialogues, she shows that Plato systematically links democratic ideals and activities to philosophic labor. Monoson finds that Plato's political thought exposes intimate connections between Athenian democratic politics and the practice of philosophy. Situating Plato's political thought in the context of the Athenian democratic imaginary, Monoson develops a new, textured way of thinking of the relationship between Plato's thought and the politics of his city.

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