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Kuciak, Jakub. "The Fleet as the Basis for Polycrates of Samos’ Thalassocracy." Electrum 27 (2020): 45–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20800909el.20.003.12793.

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Described most exhaustively in Herodotus’ Histories, the navy commanded by tyrant Polycrates of Samos was allegedly one of the greatest in archaic Greece, but the extant sources provide conflicting information about its history of use, structure and role in Polycrates’grand strategy. The paper analyses the available evidence to throw light on selected unknowns regarding Polycrates’naval power. Considered matters include numbers and types of ships found in Polycrates’ navy: penteconters, triremes and samainae, the invention of the latter type traditionally ascribed to Polycrates. Relevantly to this article, the Greek historiographic tradition frequently ascribes famous inventions to famous personages: within this text, I attempt to untangle this association to test whether it holds true for Polycrates. Finally, I examine how the tyrant obtained funds to maintain his sizeable fleet, investigating whether Polycrates might have resorted to pillaging and privateering to pay for his navy’s upkeep.

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Woodbury, Leonard. "Ibycus and Polycrates." Phoenix 39, no. 3 (1985): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1088635.

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van der Veen, Jan Ebel. "Polycrates, Croesus, Xerxes." Lampas 52, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/lam2019.1.003.vand.

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Summary The present article is a response to the essay by Irene de Jong in this issue of Lampas. Its main contention is that De Jong misrepresents the motives at work in Herodotus’ representation of Croesus, Xerxes and, especially, the return of Polycrates’ ring. Focusing entirely on the divine aspect of causation (the ‘jealousy of the gods’), De Jong leaves out of consideration altogether the second part of what Lesky called doppelte Motivation: the psychological aspect. I aim to show that in so doing De Jong creates an incomplete picture of causation in Herodotus, especially with regard to the three iconic characters mentioned. The most important element of Herodotus’ monarchs is their ineluctable adherence to power and greatness, which dictates their outlook on life and forces their hand, even when they (like Xerxes and Polycrates) do possess an intellectual grasp of the realities concerned. The working of this powerful force is signalled by the mention of emotions like anger, fear and pleasure.

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Pelling, Christopher. "Herodotus, Polycrates – and Maybe Stesimbrotus Too?" Journal of Hellenic Studies 136 (2016): 113–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0075426916000082.

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Abstract:The late fifth-century or sixth-century AD writer Fulgentius appears to quote Stesimbrotus of Thasos for a grisly detail of the death of Polycrates, describing how his corpse was carried away on a stretcher. Fulgentius is not a source to command confidence, and Jacoby dismisses this fragment as ‘unecht’ without further discussion. There is a case for being more cautious. It is not impossible that Stesimbrotus described Polycrates’ death, and, if so, Herodotus may be setting himself against that narrative when he says that Polycrates was killed ‘in a way which does not bear mentioning’. There may be a broader sense too in which both Herodotus and Thucydides are ‘defining their narratives against’ the work of Stesimbrotus among others.

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de Jong, Irene. "De ring van Polycrates (Herodotus, Historiën 3.39-43)." Lampas 52, no. 1 (March 1, 2019): 3–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/lam2019.1.002.dejo.

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Summary This paper offers a narratological close reading of one of Herodotus’ most celebrated stories. Special attention is paid to the recurrent Herodotean themes and story-patterns which shape it and thus can help to interpret it. For once the advice of a warner is heeded, but the return of the ring shows that Polycrates’ fate is already sealed and cannot be averted anymore. His great good fortune has brought Polycrates the envy of the gods, a concept which must be looked at in terms of the contemporary Ionian interest in ‘balance’ (of the bodily humours, of climate, of good fortune): the gods watch over the balance of the kosmos and when mortals threaten to disturb it (because of excessive power, riches or good fortune), these mortals are brought down. Most of the times these ‘excessive’ mortals also ‘earn’ their fate by committing crimes or making grave mistakes, and the quick account of Polycrates’ earlier career showed him killing one of his brothers and abusing the unwritten law of ξεινίη. When he faithfully executes Amasis’ advice and throws away his precious ring it is already too late and, as Amasis concludes, his fate cannot be changed anymore.

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Gray, V. J. "Xenophon's Defence of Socrates: The Rhetorical Background to the Socratic Problem." Classical Quarterly 39, no. 1 (May 1989): 136–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800040532.

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The death of Socrates gave birth to an industry of biographical literature which often took the form of a defence (apologia) or prosecution (katēgoria), sometimes purporting to be the actual defence or prosecution conducted at his trial. Plato and Xenophon wrote works in his defence. Among his critics, one Polycrates had a certain notoriety. Lysias, Theodectes and Demetrius of Phalerum, orators and rhetoricians like Polycrates, were credited with further works of apology. There were doubtless many others. The aim of this paper is to show that Xenophon wrote his Defence in the light of the rhetorical theory that required that a speaker utter words and thoughts appropriate πρεποντα to his character.

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Papalas, Anthony. "POLYCRATES OF SAMOS AND THE FIRST GREEK TRIREME FLEET." Mariner's Mirror 85, no. 1 (January 1999): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1999.10656724.

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BAUCKHAM, RICHARD. "PAPIAS AND POLYCRATES ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FOURTH GOSPEL." Journal of Theological Studies 44, no. 1 (1993): 24–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jts/44.1.24.

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Hulme, B. J. ""NATURALIS HISTORMIAE" 37.3-4: PLINY, LIVIA, AND THE SARDONYX OF POLYCRATES." Phoenix 65, no. 3-4 (2011): 395–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phx.2011.0031.

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Gao, Shushun. "The Struggle for Apostolic Authority: The Easter Controversy in the Late Second Century." Religions 15, no. 4 (April 17, 2024): 494. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15040494.

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The Easter controversy of the late second century unveiled a profound theological and cultural debate within early Christianity. Originating from differing practices regarding the calculation of Easter dates, the dispute pitted the churches of Asia Minor against the Roman Church. This paper primarily employs a method of documentary analysis. It analyzes the accounts provided by the fourth-century historian Eusebius of Caesarea in his work The History of the Church. It is also cross-referenced with the works of second-century Christian writers. Through this process, this paper seeks to reconstruct the situation of this Easter controversy. Furthermore, it aims to uncover the struggle for apostolic authority concealed beneath the surface of this debate over dates. Central figures like Victor I and Polycrates engaged in this struggle for Apostolic authority, responding to challenges posed by heresies. Victor I leveraged his position to convene religious conferences and issue excommunication decrees against dissenting churches, laying claim to the papal primacy. However, Polycrates invoked the apostolic succession and heritage from John the Apostle to assert the legitimacy of the churches in Asia Minor, challenging Victor I’s attempts at centralizing power within the Roman see. The controversy reflected broader debates over apostolic succession and ecclesiastical power structures. The Easter controversy serves as a case study of the Early Church’s engagement with practical theology and the integration of religious festival culture with social backgrounds, highlighting the significance of Easter as a symbol of Christian unity and collective memory. This debate highlighted theological nuances and underscored broader issues of communal identity and the power struggle within early Christian communities.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Polycrates"

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McCutcheon, Bonnie June. "Spectacular Gifts:Gifts Given to Delian Apollo During the Greek Archaic Period." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523834665416119.

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Kuciak, Jakub. "Logoi samijskie w kontekście koncepcji dziejów i poglądów politycznych Herodota." Praca doktorska, 2020. https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/276475.

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Books on the topic "Polycrates"

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Blanc, Nero. Death on the Diagonal. New York: Penguin Group USA, Inc., 2008.

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Blanc, Nero. A crossworder's holiday. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2003.

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Blanc, Nero. A crossworder's holiday. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2003.

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Carty, Aideen. Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.25162/9783515109000.

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"Ring of Polycrates" and Other Stories. Carnegie Publishing, 1994.

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Carty, Aideen. Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Franz, 2014.

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Connell, Brendan. Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children. Avicia Press, Limited, 2011.

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Segal, Eliezer. Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2014.

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Segal, Eliezer. Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2014.

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Segal, Eliezer. Most Precious Possession: The Ring of Polycrates in Ancient Religious Narratives. Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter, 2014.

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Book chapters on the topic "Polycrates"

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Eisler, Robert. "Bishop Polycrates of Ephesus on the Ephesian John." In The Enigma of the Fourth Gospel, 35–38. London: Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003491873-11.

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Schuster, Dirk. "Nazi Germany and Religion—Some Thoughts on the Legal Framework Set by Religion Policy in a Polycratic Government System." In The State as an Actor in Religion Policy, 55–69. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-06945-2_2.

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Chroust, Anton-Hermann. "Polycrates’ Κατηγορία Σωϰράτοιυς." In Socrates, Man And Myth, 69–268. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429461163-4.

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Platt, Verity. "The Seal of Polycrates." In Classics and Media Theory, 53–76. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846024.003.0003.

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This chapter explores Kittler’s claim that media provide models and metaphors for the senses, as well as ‘gadgets’ for conceptualizing the soul. Drawing on the role of the seal-ring (daktylios), in Greek philosophical models of sense perception, memory, and knowledge acquisition, together with examples of classical intaglios, it explores how practices of sealing were fundamental to the ‘cultural techniques’ (Kulturtechniken) through which Greek society reflected upon its own practices of transmission and communication. As ‘indexical’ devices, seals anticipate the later development of printing, sound recording, photography, and film, offering a prehistory of analogue technologies that operate by means of the stamp, imprint, or trace. These themes are explored in relation to Herodotus’ tale of the seal of Polycrates, which is read as a Kittlerian ‘discourse on discourse channel conditions’ in which the materiality, facture, and instrumentality of the tyrant’s ring invite reflection upon the text’s formation of its own systems of inscription and communication. The episode’s later reappearance in Posidippus’ ekphrastic Lithika demonstrates how, in operating as an interface for the transmission of data between different media, the seal and its impression also constituted antiquity’s archetypal intermedial device across the ‘discourse networks’ of the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods.

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Sacks, David. "I." In A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World, 120–24. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112061.003.0009.

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Abstract lbycus Lyric poet of circa 535 B.c., known particularly for his love poetry. Coming from the Greek city of RHEGIUM, located in the “toe” of ITALY, he supposedly refused an offered dictatorship and traveled instead to the east Greek island of sAMos, where he flourished at the wealthy court of thety Tant POLYCRATES,

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Burkert, Walter. "Kynaithos, Polycrates, and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo." In Greek Literature, 155–64. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203055878-8.

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Kuciak, Jakub, and Sebastian Fink. "Female Advisors Between East and West." In Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-776-0/006.

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This article discusses the role of female advisors in Mesopotamian and Greek texts. Case studies are devoted to the advisors of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, and the female advisors in Herodotus, namely the daughters of Polycrates and Periander and Gorgo. While female advisors played an important role in Greece and Mesopotamia, the comparison revealed that, while in Mesopotamian texts the female advisors are mainly mother figures – whether human or divine –, daughters play an important role in Herodotus.

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Chroust, Anton-Hermann. "The Antisthenian Elements in the Κατηγορία Σωϰράτους of Polycrates." In Socrates, Man And Myth, 135–299. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429461163-6.

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"Chapter 1 Platonic Values: Polycrates and the Politics of Epideictic." In Odious Praise, 11–38. Penn State University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780271092416-004.

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"THE LORD OF THE RING Herodotus on the fall of Polycrates." In The Significant and the Insignificant, 6–22. BRILL, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004409019_004.

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