Open AccessTyrannoi and Tyrants on the Tragic Stage
Author(s) -
Jan Kucharski
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
classica cracoviensia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-6753
pISSN - 1505-8913
DOI - 10.12797/cc.15.2012.15.08
Subject(s) - drama , scrutiny , tragedy (event) , greek tragedy , literature , politics , history , stage (stratigraphy) , art , philosophy , law , political science , geology , theology , paleontology
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.