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MCNEARNEY, ELIZABETH HOPE. "DOMITIAN: THE MAKING OF A TYRANT." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1155086688.
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McNearney, Elizabeth Hope. "Domitian the making of a tyrant /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1155086688.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2006.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Nov. 30, 2006). Includes abstract. Keywords: Domitian; Tyranny; Tyrant; Suetonius; Pliny the Younger; Tacitus. Includes bibliographical references.
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de, Lisle Christopher. "Agathokles of Syracuse : Sicilian tyrant and Hellenistic king." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:527d1dac-c70e-4de0-a3be-5cd9b07ef7eb.
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This thesis discusses Agathokles of Syracuse (r. 317-289), arguing that he should be understood in both the context of local Greek Sicilian traditions and contemporary Hellenistic developments, whereas previous studies have represented him as remaining apart from the Hellenistic world as a Sicilian dead end or embracing the Hellenistic world so enthusiastically that he abandoned his Sicilian context altogether. Thus this is a thesis about chronological continuity at the beginning of the Hellenistic period and geographical continuity between Sicily and the wider Mediterranean region. The thesis is tripartite. The first part deals with literary and numismatic source material, arguing for a shift away from source criticism in order to emphasise the coherence and agency of the surviving literary texts and the relationship of characterisations of Agathokles to broader Greek representations of autocracy. I discuss the chronology, iconography, and circulation of Agathokles' coinage, as evidence for the combination of Sicilian and Hellenistic elements. The second part discusses Agathokles' rulership style, arguing that the assumption of the royal title did not transform his rule and identifying substantial parallels with his predecessors and his contemporaries. This suggests that Sicilian tyranny and Hellenistic monarchy were aspects of a single Greek tradition of autocracy. The third part of the thesis looks at Agathokles' interactions with Sicily, Carthage, Italy, Mainland Greece and the Diadochoi, identifying the dynamics which drove these interactions and showing how they continued older models of interaction and were shaped by contemporary developments. This demonstrates the degree to which Agathokles and his local Sicilian context were part of the wider Hellenistic world.
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Shongwe, Acquirance Vusumuzi. "King Dingane : a treacherous tyrant or an African nationalist?" Thesis, University of Zululand, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1123.
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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2004.This thesis focuses on the reasons why King Dingane of the Zulu nation has been portrayed predominantly as a treacherous tyrant in South Africa's Eurocentric historical databases and poses the question whether he should, instead, not be regarded as the forerunner of African nationalism. It also examines the roots of European imperialism in South Africa, as recorded in governmental, geographical, trade and missionary records, and points out that, as with the first colonial invasion by Islam that resulted in the Tarikh chronicles, European imperialism was also inherently based on foreign and nationalistic biases. The study concludes that these preconceived notions have adulterated and overwhelmed the purer African voice that is uniquely represented by the oral tradition. Because the subdued African voice is regarded as more reliable than the written Eurocentric records, this study attempts to augment the Africa- centered work of Africanist historians who have, for several decades, revisited the oral history of Africa in order to recover, rehabilitate and represent a point of view and perspective intrinsic and special to Africa. The history of King Dingane of the Zulus encapsulates the problem of African historiography best because most of the sources from which accounts of his reign are reconstructed are European, and for this reason, propagate a Eurocentric bias. For example, while Eurocentric White historians are able to present, in print, three eyewitness accounts of the death of Piet Retief, the African point of view based on oral history is largely disregarded. This study seeks to redress this imbalance by championing the African point of view, which is considered to be not only sensible but also plausible and justifiable. Likewise, much attention has been given to the many studies that demonise King Dingane for the single act of viciously killing the purportedly innocent and innocuous Voortrekkers, while the broad contours of context against which his actions should be judged are disregarded. The purpose of this thesis is to debunk the myth of King Dingane's unfairness and criminality. It can therefore be interpreted as an effort at decriminalizing King Dingane's actions - a dimension that earlier as well as contemporary scholars of African history have hitherto ignored. It is hoped that in time similar studies on other issues will broaden this perspective and help to create the balance so sorely missing in Zulu history. A theoretical framework for historical representation is provided in chapter one of the study, while chapter two examines the mindset of the White explorers that arrived in Africa, and their imperial agenda that sought to control, drastically change and re-order everything. Chapter three attempts to portray the greatness of King Dingane in dealing with matters of governance as well as other issues that were to have a profound impact on the way in which he came to be portrayed in history books. Chapter four discusses the relationship between King Dingane and the British Settlers at Port Natal, while chapter five deals with the relationships between King Dingane and the Voortrekkers, who sought the very freedom from the British in the Cape Colony that they were prepared to destroy among Africans in the Zulu Kingdom. The final chapter deals with public history and perceptions about King Dingane in the 21^' century. The two museums that commemorate Impi yase Ncome/the Battle of 'Blood River' on 16 December are contrasted with each other and their potential for nation building is examined in a critical light. The central thesis of this study is that the historiography of the early years of the 19'^ century inevitably, and perhaps even deliberately, represented King Dingane as a tyrant with neither nationalistic proclivities nor stately qualities. The popularity of this historiographic perspective is arguably symptomatic of a hegemonic disciplinary praxis that seeks to privilege the principles of selection, preference and bias in the use of the vast archive of sources available to the historian, from the written to the oral source. To all intents and purposes, this principle, which interpolates the discourse of history as well as the producers and consumers of historical scholarship, has led to a limited, over-determined and totalizing view of King Dingane. It is this biased discourse that articulates with the dominant ideology that not only informed scholarship, but also reflected the ideology of the institutions responsible for shaping historiography. A full analysis of the circumstances surrounding King Dingane at the time, including the history, the culture, the political dynamics and the personalities of the actors, leads one to the inexorable conclusion that this thesis arrives at - namely that the king did what 'a king had to do.' It is furthermore concluded that the evidence leads one to believe that King Dingane should be seen as a forerunner of Black Nationalism, instead of being branded as a treacherous, bloodthirsty tyrant.
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Loose, Sarah Marianne. "Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2007. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/1152.
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Gaius Julius Caesar is not only the most well-known figure in Roman history, but he is also one of the most difficult to understand. Since his assassination, Caesar has played an important role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been literary treatments of Caesar from William Shakespeare to the present, little has been done to trace the image of Caesar through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. The present work attempts to fill that hole by examining portrayals of Caesar in medieval and early Renaissance texts. An examination of specific authors such as Geoffrey of Monmouth, John of Salisbury, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Petrarch, Salutati, and Bruni, clearly demonstrates that Caesar was consistently portrayed as the first emperor and used to represent the Roman Empire. As the first emperor, representations of Caesar figured significantly in debates about the power of the Church and the Empire, the benefits and downfalls of imperial government, and tyrannicide. Authors were influenced in their portrayals of Caesar by the classical portrayals found in the works of Vergil, Lucan, and Suetonius. Each author's interpretation of Caesar was also impacted by the political and intellectual milieu in which he flourished. Analysis of Caesar's image over this time period serves not only as a part of Caesar historiography, but also provides insight into the ways that scholars write history to understand the world around them.
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Robin, Mabriez Françoise. "Les versions du XVe siècle d’Artus de Bretagne : édition et étude littéraire." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011REN20028.
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Artus de Bretagne est un roman du XIVe siècle conservé dans de nombreux manuscrits, ce qui établit son succès. Le fils d'un duc de Bretagne y gagne le royaume de Sorrolois, devenant ainsi le roi Artus. Il existe des continuations du roman au XVe siècle, conservées dans quatre manuscrits. Ils contiennent des textes proches qui constituent une version longue du roman. La thèse édite les 229 premiers folios du manuscrit BnF fr 19 163. Le texte est établi grâce aux trois autres manuscrits et au manuscrit BnF fr 761 qui contient la version courte. Le texte pose peu de problèmes de lecture et utilise le moyen français de manière régulière, avec un vocabulaire déjà connu par ailleurs, même si plusieurs copistes ont travaillé. L'analyse littéraire s'intéresse aux problèmes posés par l'écriture de continuation. Comment l'auteur de la version longue d'Artus de Bretagne les a-t-il résolus ? L'auteur commence son texte avant la fin de la version courte et en reprend la matière sans différence significative. Il faut penser qu'il y a là de quoi intéresser le lecteur médiéval, grand amateur de variations sur le même sujet. Pour autant comment ne pas lasser ? La thèse s'attache à étudier les solutions mises en oeuvre par l'auteur qui conduisent à s'interroger sur une nouvelle esthétique fondée sur le mélange des matières - antique, bretonne, française - et le mélange de l'épique, du merveilleux, du lyrisme. Le roman est aussi un roman favorable à la France et aux Français qu'il valorise, considérant le roi Artus comme un Français.. Le roman se révèle aussi porteur d'une vision du monde qui permet au XVe siècle de mieux se vivre et de préserver une image favorable de lui-mêmeArtus de Bretagne is a 14th century novel. Its presence in several manuscripts helped establish its popularity. The narrative follows Artus, the son of a duke from Brittany, winning the kingdom of Sorrolois and therefor becoming king Arthus. There are sequel to the novel dating from the 15th century disseminated in four manuscripts. They contain stories close that constitute a longer version of the original novel. This thesis edits the first 229 folios of the BnF fr 19 163 manuscript. This text is based on three other manuscript and the short version of the novel, contained in the BnF fr 761 manuscript. The BnF fr 19163 text is easily readable and uses moyen français throughout ; the vocabulary is known even though several copists worked on it. The literary analysis focuses on the problems surfacing from continuation writing. How did the author of the long version of Artus de Bretagne overcome them? The author starts the text before the end of the short version and uses the content without any significant differences. There is enough to interest medieval readers, fond of variations on the same subjects. However, this raises the question, how to keeo the audience engaged? This thesis aims at studying solutions used by the author and how they lead to a reflexion on new aesthetics based on merging genres: antiquity, breton, french - and styles, epic, fantasy and lyrism. The novel is also complimentary towards France and French people, valorised through Artus being considered French. The novel reveals itself as the bearer of a vision of the world allowing the 15th century to live better
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Saner, Goze. "From tyrant to clown and back an actor's practical study of archetype in performance." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537517.
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My research explores how the presence, emergence, and collective experience of archetype can be sought in performance. While words such as essence and truth designate an aim and consequently a sense of direction for the actor, they run short of providing a concrete vocabulary or a precise methodology. Archetypal psychology's conception of archetype offers a framework which facilitates addressing these evasive concerns and indicates certain methodological principles with which they can be explored in training, acting and performance. I employ the process-oriented approach of 'archetypally' engaging with mythology and dreams while investigating questions pertinent to performance; archetypal figures like Sisyphus and Odysseus illuminate various aspects of training and performance, such as, the dynamics of repetition and difference in physical action, the momentary and processual nature of agency, and the composition of performance score within a temporal-spatial context that includes the spectator. The inherent critique of representation allows the performing psychophysical body to appear as the locus of an immediate relationship between actors and spectators; hence, archetype is conceived in the form of a rhizome, emergent and evergrowing through archetypal moments which can be composed, experienced and shared in performance. My work on the tyrant provides a point of focus to explore practically elements which can be traced across a range of traditions. The generic relationship with myth and the multiplied body ofthe actor in ancient pantomime, the relational mode of agency and the active memory of Renerici and lazzi in commedia dell 'arte, and the aporia of the clown can be interlinked with the dynamics of discipline and spontaneity and the actor's 'passive readiness' in the work of Grotowski. Distinguishing from the cross-sections of these traditions various containers for the work of the actor to generate archetypal material as well as to perform archetypally, and by incorporating them into my 'work on myself.' I aim to unveil language pertinent to archetype and perhaps to challenge the notion of the archetypal actor as sacrificial lamb by suggesting another: the clown/tyrant.
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Cohen, Brandon. "A medieval tyrant in Vetustas: the literary transformation of Ezzelino da Romano (1262-1318)." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27623.
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Curwen, Emma. "Mother, wife, temptress, virgin and tyrant defining images of feminine power in medieval queenship and modern politics /." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2009. http://165.236.235.140/lib/ECurwen2009.pdf.
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Pirola, Francesca. "Uccidere il tiranno : tirannicidio e resistenza in inghilterra tra cinquecento e seicento." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB149.
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L'exécution de Charles Ier - souverain d'Angleterre, d'Écosse et d'Irlande - qui a eu lieu le 30 janvier 1649, représente un événement unique dans l'histoire moderne européenne. Déjà avant Charles Ier, des dizaines de souverains ont été victimes de conjurations ou de morts violentes, tués en secret ou ouvertement, mais personne avant lui n'avait été décapité sur la place publique après avoir subi un procès et le jugement d'une Court Suprême de Justice. Le cas de Charles Ier est tout à fait particulier, parce que la condamnation du souverain se fonde précisément sur l'accusation de tyrannie. Ce travail de thèse analyse le débat enflammé que suscite cet événement exceptionnel et son contexte théorique et culturel. La thèse s'articule ainsi en deux sections. La première, structurée en quatre chapitres, aborde la question du procès et de l'exécution de Charles Ier, faisant dialoguer entre eux deux observateurs d'exception des guerres civiles anglaises, John Milton et Thomas Hobbes. La comparaison des théories politiques de ces deux auteurs vise à répondre à une question fondamentale, c'est-à-dire si l'exécution du souverain est un acte illégitime (on parle dans ce cas d'un régicide) où légitime (il s'agit alors d'un tyrannicide). La seconde section est consacrée à l'analyse des sources du débat anglais sur le droit de résistance au tyran. L'attention est focalisée sur la tradition protestante britannique de la seconde moitié du XVIème siècle, dont le rôle dans le débat autour de la mort de Charles Ier n'a pas encore été opportunément examiné. En s'inspirant des indications données par Milton dans son « Tenure of Kings and Magistrates », dans cette section on s'arrête sur quatre auteurs considérés comme « monarchomaques britanniques » : John Ponet, Christopher Goodman, John Knox et George Buchanan. Dans un parcours qui procède du débat aux sources, ce travail de thèse se propose d'évaluer l'évolution du concept de la tyrannie et de la mutation, qui va de pair, du droit de résistance. L'investigation sur les différents thèmes - la distinction entre roi et tyran, les modèles de résistance, la légitimité du tyrannicide - élucide les conditions théoriques qui ont rendu possible de penser comme légitime le meurtre d'un souverain et de le réaliserThe execution of Charles I Stuart - King of England, Scotland and Ireland - which took place on 30th January 1649, was an absolutely unique event in European modern history. Already before Charles I, dozens of sovereigns had been victims to plots or violent deaths, had been killed in secret or in public, but nobody before him had been beheaded in a public place after suffering a public trial and a sentence of condemnation by a High Court of Justice. The case of Charles I was particularly significant, because his condemnation lay on the accusation of tyranny. In this thesis both the debate roused by this exceptional event and its theoretical and cultural background will be analysed. The dissertation is therefore made up of two sections. The first section, divided into four chapters, deals with the question of the trial and execution of Charles I, by linking two exceptional spectators of the English Civil Wars, namely John Milton and Thomas Hobbes. By comparing their political theories, this section aims at answering a fundamental question, that is, whether the king's execution was an illegitimate act (in other words a regicide) or a legitimate one (tyrannicide). The second section is devoted to the analysis of the sources of the English debate on the right of resistance to tyrants. Attention is focused on the British Protestant tradition of the second half of XVIth century, whose role on the debate around Charles I's death has not yet been adequately examined. Taking the cue from Milton's indications included in his "Tenure of Kings and Magistrates", this section will examine four authors considered to be «British monarchomachs»: John Ponet, Christopher Goodman, John Knox and George Buchanan. By moving from the debate to its sources, the present work intends to evaluate the evolution of the concept of tyranny and, simultaneously, the mutation of the right of resistance. In examining various topics - the distinction between king and tyrant, the models of resistance and the legitimacy of tyrannicide - it aims at identifying the theoretical conditions that made it possible to think of the murder of a sovereign as being legitimate, and to put it into execution
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Ferrari, Andrea. "Efeitos de fatores meteorológicos e do habitat no comportamento de forrageamento de tiranídeos (Aves, Tyrannidae) nos campos da Estação Ecológica de Itirapina, São Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41134/tde-18012016-112342/.
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O comportamento de forrageamento dos tiranídeos (Aves, Tyrannidae) é caracterizado por um modo estereotipado de \"procura e captura\", com sutis variações interespecíficas relacionadas com fatores morfológicos e ecológicos. Estas aves são predominantemente insetívoras e podem alternar entre modos distintos de forrageamento de acordo com variações climáticas que alterem a disponibilidade de presas. Neste estudo, procuramos quantificar o comportamento de forrageamento de Alectrurus tricolor, Gubernetes yetapa, Xolmis cinereus e Xolmis velatus, durante as estações seca e chuvosa dos anos de 2012 e 2013, na Estação Ecológica de Itirapina. Nosso objetivo foi verificar quão plásticos são os modos de forrageamento destas espécies diante de mudanças nas condições ambientais em diferentes escalas temporais. Buscamos verificar se: i) Estas espécies alteram sazonalmente as proporções entre os modos de ataques, o tempo de procura por presas e a distância entre um poleiro sem sucesso para um novo poleiro? Considerando que a disponibilidade de artrópodes pode variar consideravelmente em pequenas escalas temporais e espaciais, testamos se: ii) Existem correlações entre medidas diárias de fatores meteorológicos, como temperatura, insolação, pluviosidade, umidade relativa do ar e vento, e os comportamentos de forrageamento? iii) Existem correlações entre os diferentes tipos de habitats utilizados pelas aves e os comportamentos de forrageamento? iv) Diferenças entre os sexos e a idade do indivíduo influenciam no forrageamento de Alectrurus tricolor? Nossos resultados indicaram que as aves alteram seus padrões de comportamento entre as estações seca e chuvosa de modo a melhor aproveitar as especificidades de cada estação. Ataques aéreos foram predominantemente utilizados por Alectrurus tricolor e Gubernetes yetapa ao longo das duas estações, mas apenas durante a estação chuvosa para Xolmis velatus. Ataques direcionados ao solo foram predominantemente utilizado por Xolmis cinereus durante as duas estações e por Xomis velatus durante a estação seca. Ataques aéreos foram correlacionados principalmente com altas temperaturas, mas também com baixa cobertura de nuvens, tipo de habitat, fase do dia, ventos leves, maior umidade relativa do ar e presença de chuva, com variações de acordo com a espécie estudada. O tempo de procura por presas variou principalmente com a estrutura do habitat, e os maiores valores foram encontrados quando as aves forrageavam em áreas abertas. Fatores que reduzem a disponibilidade de presas aéreas, como baixas temperaturas, baixa insolação e vento moderado, foram correlacionados com as maiores distâncias percorridas entre poleiros. Porém, quando consideramos uma maior escala temporal, encontramos maiores valores de distâncias percorridas durante a estação chuvosa para Alectrurus tricolor e Xolmis velatus, quando as condições ambientais são mais favoráveis, o que pode estar relacionado com os requerimentos da fase reprodutiva. Assim, podemos observar que a interação entre fatores meteorológicos e estrutura do habitat influenciam os padrões de comportamento destas avesThe foraging behavior of tyrant flycatchers (Aves, Tyrannidae) is characterized by a stereotyped way of \"search-and-capture\" with subtle interspecific variations related to morphological and ecological factors. These birds are mainly insectivorous and can switch between different foraging modes according to weather variations that alter the availability of prey. In this study, we seek to quantify the foraging behavior of Alectrurus tricolor, Gubernetes yetapa, Xolmis cinereus and Xolmis velatus in the dry and wet seasons of the years 2012 and 2013, at the Ecological Station of Itirapina. The objectives of this study were to determine how plastics the foraging modes of these species are against environmental changing of conditions at different time scales. It seeks to determine whether: i) These species use foraging maneuvers, search time and the distances moved from one unsuccessful perch to a new perch (give-up flight) in different proportions between the two seasons? Arthropod availability may vary considerably in small spatial and temporal scales, then we tested whether ii) There is correlation between daily weather measurements, such as temperature, cloud cover, rainfall, relative humidity and wind, and the foraging behavior? iii) There are correlations between the different habitats used by birds and foraging behavior? iv) The foraging behavior of Alectrurus tricolor is influenced by sex and age of the individual? Our results indicated the birds change their behavior between the dry and wet seasons in order to benefit from specific features of each season. Aerial hawking was predominantly used by Alectrurus tricolor and Gubernetes yetapa during both seasons, but by Xolmis velatus only during the wet season. Perch-to-ground was the predominant hunting strategy for Xolmis cinereus during both seasons and for Xomis velatus during the dry season. Aerial hawking was mainly correlated with high temperatures, but also with lower cloud cover, habitat type, time of day, low wind speed, higher relative humidity and the rain, with variations according to the studied species. Search time varied mainly with habitat structure, and the highest values when the birds were foraging in open areas. Factors reducing the availability of aerial prey, such as low temperature, low insolation and moderate wind, were correlated with longer distances traveled between perches. However, when we consider a larger time scale, we fond Alectrurus tricolor and Xolmis velatus covered greater distances the wet season (when environmental conditions are more favorable) what may be related to breeding requirements. Thus, the interaction between weather and habitat structure influences the behavioral patterns of those birds
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Tadlock, Stephen Kyle. "Forging the Sword of Damocles: Memory, Mercenaries, and Monarchy on Sicily." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1522241831627667.
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Caire, Emmanuèle. "Critias d'Athènes, sophiste et tyran." Aix-Marseille 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998AIX10009.
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De critias, fils de callaischros, nous est parvenue a travers les siecles une etrange image, aux facettes multiples et parfois contradictoires. Aristocrate esthete, poete et philosophe, critias qui fut le cousin de platon, le familier de socrate et l'eleve des sophistes, fut aussi, durant les huit derniers mois de son existence, le chef de la faction la plus dure des trente, et l'instigateur d'une oligarchie que lui- meme definissait, selon xenophon, comme une "tyrannie". Comme l'irruption tardive de critias dans la politique fut l'une des plus violentes et des plus radicales qu'ait connues l'histoire athenienne, comme les auteurs anciens trahissent un certain embarras pour l'expliquer, on pouvait se demander si l'oligarchie des trente marquait vraiment, dans l'existence de critias, une rupture brutale, due a des motivations personnelles, ou si elle s'inscrivait dans la continuite de l'elaboration d'une theorie politique. En interrogeant tour a tour les origines, la formation, la biographie et l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de critias, cette these se propose de retrouver une coherence entre les ecrits du "sophiste" et l'action du "tyran", qui ont ete si frequemment dissocies, voire meme opposes. L'origine des apparentes contradictions de critias doit etre recherchee dans la convergence de deux influences : celle de la tradition aristocratique athenienne et celle de la pensee des sophistes, qui se rejoignent chez lui en une reflexion originale sur la nature et la valeur des "constitutions" et surtout sur les conditions d'acquisition et d'exercice du pouvoir. Admirateur de l'oligarchie lacedemonienne, telle qu'il en avait, dans son oeuvre, redessine les traits, nostalgique d'une societe aristocratique idealisee, critias aurait pu inventer l'utopie politique. En entreprenant de traduire l'utopie dans les faits, il se fit l'acteur et le theoricien d'une forme de regime ou l'ideologie se conjuguait avec le realisme le plus brutal pour eriger la terreur en methode de gouvernementCritias, son of callaischros, was remembered as a disconcerting and ambiguous figure. Aristocrat and aesthete, poet and philosopher, critias, the cousin of plato's mother, had consorted with socrates and had been a follower of the most famous sophists of his time. But, when he came into power in 403 b. C, he was, during the eight last months of his life, the leader of the extremists among the thirty, and he established the rule of a radical oligarchy explicitly definited by himself, according to xenophon, as a "tyranny". Since critias' appearance into politics was one of the most radical and violent in athenian history, it may be wondered whether critias degeneration into a tyrant was the result of a change brought about by a desire of revenge on democracy, or the fruit of a theory elaborated, throughout his life, about political constitutions. The purpose of this work is to put forward the hypothesis that there is unity and coherence between the "sophist's" works, and the "tyrant's" conduct. The origin of critias' apparent contradictions is to be found in the convergence of the influences of aristocratic athenian tradition and of the sophists' theories, synthesized by critias in an original thinking over the nature of the best constitution and, above all, over the ways and means to obtain and keep power. Admiring lacedaimonian organization of state and yearning over an idealized aristocratic society, critias could have imagined political utopia. But, attempting to carry utopia into effect, he became the chief actor and the theorizer of a rule where ideology was combined with the most brutal realism in such a manner that the reign of terror was made a system of government
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Hughes, Marianelly. "MONARCAS, TIRANOS Y TIRANICIDIOS: LA IDEOLOGÍA DE JUAN DE MARIANA EN LA OBRA DE LOPE DE VEGA." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1155647816.
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Nøhr, Andreas Aagaard. "Tyrants of truth : a genealogy of hyper-real politics." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3663/.
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This thesis challenges the widely accepted discourse of post-truth politics, which finds support in what is in this thesis referred to as ‘antinomy hypothesis’ – the belief that politics and truth are opposites and external to one another, where one exists the other disappear; truth is abstract and absolute, while politics is a theatre of appearances with no room for truth. In contrast, this thesis explores the conditions of possibility for thinking that we inhabit a world of post-truth politics, by proposing the concept of the ‘politics of truth’ – the struggle at the most general level of society where the true is separated from the false and where what gets to count as truth and reality is decided. If truth only has value in so far as it serves life then the central problem in the politics of truth, the thesis argues, is to establishes the socio-political limits of thought: how and by what practices is it possible for thought to test its own truth in politics? It is by erecting the epistemological space that sets out possible answers to this question that thought became the tyrant of truth, which today has taken form of hyper-real politics of truth. This thesis thus asks the genealogical question: what will or wills have shaped the politics of truth, so that it today has become hyper-real? To answer this question the thesis develops a theory of ‘traditions of thought’ based on the French school of Historical Epistemology. The rest of the thesis explores, in a series of chronological chapters spanning from Archaic Greece until today, how the politics of truth has been problematized in thought through the concepts of parrhēsia, exhortation, public critique, and hyper-real politics. In hyper-real politics of truth where the real is in the process of being replaced by its copy, there is no space for the difference of thought, only the positive mode of thought that affirms and produces more truth.
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Maxson, Brian. "Kings and Tyrants: Leonardo Bruni's translation of Xenophon's "Hiero"." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2010. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6179.
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Leonardo Bruni published one of his most widely copied translations, Xenophon's pro-monarchical Hiero, shortly before he penned his more famous original works, his Dialogues and Panegyric to the City of Florence. Scholars have traditionally focused on the political ideas present in these original treatises; yet, despite the centrality of political ideas to the Hiero, its temporal proximity to these works, and its enormous popularity (the work exists in 200 fifteenth-century manuscripts), scholars have neglected to offer a full assessment of Bruni's translation in the context of these works. Bruni's translation of Xenophon's Hiero fit into a debate in early fifteenth-century Florence about Julius Caesar and the Florentine poet Dante. The two major thinkers in the debate, Bruni and Coluccio Salutati, agreed that a distinction had to be made between kings and tyrants based on legal claim and quality of rule. The Hiero reinforced this assumption. The two men disagreed, however, about which category applied to Julius Caesar and what this meant for the reputation of Dante.
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Laviolette, Carole. "The tyranny of coherence /." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26741.
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This thesis introduces a skeletal representation of the "kind" of individual Doris Lessing promotes in her work. Organized around five semantic qualifiers, this analysis explores a number of Lessing's works belonging to several literary categories for evidence of the appearance of the daring, self-aware, public, engaged, and vocal individual. It argues that Lessing, as a humanist, is committed to individual personal actualization but that this is tempered with her personnally held views about what is valuable and enriching human experience. It concludes that as author of fictional tales, autobiographical texts as well as political essays, she designs the path of self-development she considers worthy of mention.
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Laviolette, Carole. "The tyranny of coherence." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29551.pdf.
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Smith, Rasmussen Bettina. "Pædagogikkens slaveri : specialpædagogikkens tyranni /." København : Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole v. Aarhus Universitet, 2008. http://www.dpb.dpu.dk/Dokumentarkiv/Publications/intern_dpb/opgaver%20fra%20dpu/20090402131645/CurrentVersion/Bettina%20Smith%20Rasmussen.pdf.
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Bryan, Jennifer Anne. "The Tyranny of Revolution." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625630.
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Gripoix, Isabelle. "Les parents battus : à propos de dix cas d'enfants tyrans." Caen, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991CAEN3086.
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Faye, Aby. "Le Vocabulaire du pouvoir personnel chez Hérodote "Rois", "Tyrans", "Despotes", "Monarques." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37597558f.
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Faye, Aby. "Le vocabulaire du pouvoir personnel chez Herodote : ("Rois", "Tyrans", "Despotes", "Monarques")." Besançon, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986BESA1008.
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Hughes, Marianelly. "Monarcas, tiranos y tiranicidios la ideología de Juan de Mariana en la obra de Lope de Vega /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1155647816.
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Ricker, Aaron. "Foreign tyrants : Greco-Roman Jewish epideictic rhetoric in Mark 10:42-43a." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116132.
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The bitter mention of foreign tyrants in Mark 10:42-43a has long been interpreted as an accurate description of "pagan" life that contrasted with life in ideal Christian community. More recently, it has been read as a piece of rhetoric aimed at imperial Rome. These explanations are too simple, since they do not take into account the fact that contrasting ideal authority with stereotyped foreign tyranny was an established habit within imperial Roman rhetorical culture itself. I argue that the passage is best understood as Jewish participation in this Greco-Roman tradition. This study traces the evolution of the stereotyped image of foreign tyranny in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Greco-Roman Jewish rhetoric, and suggests that the rhetorical strategy of Mark 10:42-43a parallels the selective and strategic use of the image in the Greco-Roman Jewish work of Josephus, and represents a similar simultaneous resistance and accommodation in the face of Roman imperial culture.
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Unruh, Daniel Benjamin. "Talking to tyrants : interaction between citizens and monarchs in classical Greek thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709328.
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Stanke, Stefan. "Tyrants, kings and generals : the relationship of leaders and their states in Xenophon's Hellenica." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425399.
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Caulton, Andrew, and n/a. "Vladimir Nabokov, 1938 : the artistic response to tyranny." University of Otago. Department of English, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20060808.090922.
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Nabokov is well known for writing numerous indictments of totalitarian tyranny, most notably Invitation to a Beheading (1935) and Bend Sinister (1947). However, my contention in this thesis is that Nabokov�s most sustained and most significant assault on totalitarian tyranny occurred in 1938.
The extent of Nabokov�s response to tyranny in 1938 is not immediately obvious. Some of Nabokov�s work of the year engages in an explicit assault on tyranny; however, in other cases the assault is oblique and in one instance cryptically concealed. In my thesis I examine each of the works of 1938, and set these against the political circumstances of the year, the tense atmosphere on the threshold of World War II. I find that all of the works of 1938, in one manner or another, respond to the political climate of the day; that Nabokov in 1938 made an unparalleled artistic response to tyranny in a uniquely ominous year.
The thesis is divided into two parts. Part 1 contains studies of each of the lesser works of 1938: chapter 5 of The Gift, "Tyrants Destroyed," The Waltz Invention, "The Visit to the Museum," and "Lik." These studies are inset into a chronological survey of the personal and political circumstances of Nabokov�s life in 1938.
Part 2 constitutes the most significant aspect of my thesis, an in-depth study of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Nabokov�s main work of 1938. The novel has been regarded as detached from the pre-war climate of the day; however, in an extensive new reading I find that the bright appearance of the novel is only a facade. My reading reveals a triadic, chess-problem-like structure to the novel, where the innocuous surface (the thesis) gives way to a cryptically concealed level of totalitarian themes (the antithesis), before the novel finally emerges onto a notional third level (the synthesis), the novel�s "solution." The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, I contend, represents the heart of Nabokov�s artistic response to tyranny in 1938. Through the triadic unfolding of the novel and the reader�s creative engagement with the text, Nabokov demonstrates that art itself triumphs over tyranny.
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Warnock, Jeanie. "Kind tyranny, brother-sister relationships in Renaissance drama." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ57078.pdf.
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Tucker, Jason. "Challenging the tyranny of citizenship : statelessness in Lebanon." Thesis, University of Bath, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636520.
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There are seventeen million people in the world who are stateless, not considered as citizens by any state. They suffer due to the current function of citizenship in the nation-state system, occupying a legal space outside of the system, yet, their lives are very much blighted by the system itself. This research examines the possibility that global citizenship could be a means to address statelessness. Global citizenship, unlike (national) citizenship, is, in theory, inclusive, and membership is based on our shared humanity. However, when approaching the global citizenship literature, two concerns became apparent. First, there is a significant lack of theorisation on the stateless in the discourse, and second, some scholars make the assumption that a global citizen has citizenship of a state – which the stateless do not. To begin to overcome these concerns, this research develops and implements a stateless centric perspective on global citizenship, using it to analyse the situation of the stateless in the case of Lebanon. The stateless centric approach developed here, views global citizenship through the actions and perspectives of those addressing statelessness. With four large and protracted stateless populations, Lebanon provides an empirically rich context, within which to undertake this research. The findings of the stateless centric perspective problematise the received wisdom of citizenship, the nation-state and allows for the exploration of the expressions and tensions in the practices of global citizenship. Drawing on a contextualised understanding of these practices, a ‘patchwork’ approach to global citizenship is proposed. This sees the creation of a public political space as an act of global citizenship, when it draws on universal principles. These universal principles are used to justify this space, taking on an instrumental role. It is a patchwork as these spaces can be seen in the wider global context, as either directly or indirectly connected, through their shared use of universal principles. By centralising the stateless in our conceptualisations of the nation-state, citizenship and global citizenship, the value of taking a stateless centric perspective, and its ability to draw out further nuances in the debate, is shown.
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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "Tyranny and Legitimacy, In and Out of Florence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5461.
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This paper will explore how explicit and implicit conceptions of tyranny contributed to common languages of legitimacy spoken far beyond fifteenth-century Florence’s typical sphere of influence. As previous scholars have noted, Florentines dressed their past and present in regal and/or Ancient Roman garments to legitimate their state, its actions, and refute accusations of tyranny. But beyond writing for the Florentines themselves, humanist texts by writers like Leonardo Bruni, Giannozzo Manetti, and Matteo Palmieri reveal attempts to reach a broad geographical audience, a move that suggests that this Florentine dichotomy between legitimacy and tyranny participated in a pan-European discourse. Whether a Renaissance Europe, a medieval Europe, a premodern Europe, or an early modern Europe, it was, in this sense, a connected Europe.
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Warnock, Jeanie E. "Kind tyranny: Brother-sister relationships in Renaissance drama." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9116.
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The study focuses on the social, literary, and psychological significance of the brother-sister relationship to a broad range of Renaissance tragedy and tragicomedy. After a brief historical analysis of siblings, the thesis considers the brother-sister relationship as an important means for dramatists to explore questions of identity, of gender conflict, and of differing understandings of family. It also examines the relationship as a developing literary tradition in the drama of the Stuart period, a tradition which culminates in the works of John Ford. The first half of the study surveys a large range of non-Shakespearean revenge tragedy and tragicomedy. In revenge tragedy, violent brother-sister strife serves as a symbol of the self in turmoil, as an image of a disordered family and society, and as a focal point for tension over the nature of women. Brothers also subvert traditional family roles in their relationships with their sisters. The avenging brother and sister, joined in shared loyalty to their house, mount a legitimate challenge to the authority of husband and king; pandar brothers become diabolical inversions of father and husband. Proceeding to tragicomedy, the thesis analyzes the brother as a figure of illegitimate authority and considers the privileged position gained by royal sisters, whose noble blood renders them the equal of their brothers. The latter half of the dissertation reinterprets the plays of John Webster and John Ford. In The Duchess of Malfi, the royal siblings' similarity, close blood tie, and high rank overturn gender difference and affirm the intimate connection between the sexes. The study considers the importance of blood family to the Duchess' self-conception and examines Ferdinand's attempts to create identity by usurping the place of his sister's husband. Ford's two plays 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The Fancies Chaste and Noble stand as the culmination of dramatic treatments of idealized and antagonistic brother-sister relationships alike. Both works contrast the opposing nature of physical and familial love and elevate asexual love above sexual passion, presenting a sibling tie which undermines the bond between husband and wife.
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Weber, Megan M. "PATRIARCHAL TYRANTS AND FEMALE BODIES: EKPHRASIS IN DRAMA AND THE NOVEL IN ENGLAND, 1609-1798." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554488740730581.
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Murphy, Gaelan. "Philosophy, tyranny and the idea of a rational state." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60999.pdf.
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Arrowsmith, Stanley P. "The tyranny in Athens in the sixth century B.C." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.237527.
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Marren, Marina. "APhilosophical Study of Tyranny in Plato, Sophocles, and Aristophanes:." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108693.
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Thesis advisor: John SallisPlato’s interlocutors discuss at length about psychology, politics, poetry, cosmology, education, nature, and the gods, in short, about the things that inscribe the transcendent and the grounding poles of human life. It stands to reason that what we wish to glean from Plato’s thinking will show itself more readily if we remain attentive to the self-undermining and the subversive elements of the dialogues. I call the interpretation, which follows the shape- and, hence, meaning-shifting structure of Plato’s writing, “paradigmatic procedure.” By this I do not mean that we ought to find, explain, and then interpretively apply to the whole of Plato’s thought any particular passages from the Republic, the Timaeus, or the Statesman, which mention paradigms. However, I, following Benardete, propose that “Plato must have learned from poets” who produced epos, tragedy, comedy, and myth. This means that Plato borrows these poetic elements and form when he writes the philosophical dialogues. Paradigmatic method of interpretation is conscious of the dramatic form. It situates and analyzes the arguments made both through speeches and through actions as these arise out of the play of literary images. The latter, in their turn, are made up of the tripartite convergence between the dialogical characters, their speeches, and their deeds. Depending on the colorations that the three impart to one another, the images of Plato are comic, tragic, or, which is most often the case, they are tragicomic. The dramatic tone of a given image, once it is detected, reflects back onto the dialogical discussion or account and presents the argument in this newly discovered light. It often happens that the difference between the initial and the paradigmatic reading is so drastic that the straightforward meaning of the studied passage is undone as Plato’s writing begins to show its self-undermining nature. This does not mean that Plato’s philosophizing, also, is undone. On the contrary, when we begin to think together with and through Plato’s subversive writing, instead of retrofitting our lives to some systems that may arise out of it and instead of forcing it to substantiate our views, then we begin to get a sense for the liberating force of Plato’s philosophy. In chapter one, I explain the relationship between paradigms and the tragicomic character of Plato’s writing. Consequently, I offer a reading of select passages from the Timaeus and from the Republic. My discoveries showcase how paradigms inform and how the paradigmatic reading uncovers the tragic dimension of the Timaeus. I show how comedy shines through the, seemingly, most serious passages in the Republic. Plato’s dialogues do not strictly divide into the tragic, comic, epic, mythic, sophistic, or pre-Socratic ones, but rather, most are woven out of all of these orientations. Nonetheless, it is safe to say that within parts or passages, such as those from the Republic, for example, a given form and theme is most pronounced. I turn to the examination of tragedy in the second chapter. There, I first argue that Sophocles’ Oedipus is a tyrant and then I expose the relationship between the psychopathology of tyranny, tragedy, and poetry in books VIII and IX of the Republic. The third chapter carries on the exploration of pathology and offers an examination of tyranny and the soul in the Timaeus. Paradigmatic analysis plays up the theatricality of the Timaeus and identifies several axes around which the dialogical accounts revolve. The three main horizons are made up of nous, necessity, and dream or choric logic. These are fleshed out by the distention given to the dialogical arguments through the enmeshment of φύσις, μῦθος, and πόλις. The fourth kind of emphasis, senselessness, ushers the dialogue’s grotesquely humorous ending and prepares the readers for the considerations of comedy in the fourth chapter of the present work. The comedy of divisions, mythic tall tales, the halving and the fitting cuts, with which Plato’s Statesman is woven through and through, reveal statesmanship’s sinister underbelly. If it were not for the comedic tone, the fourth chapter argues, the monstrousness of tyranny, which is interred in all of the paradigms entertained as models of rule in the Statesman, would have remained unseen. Attunement to the comical passages and references, in the Statesman, is made expedient by an analysis of tyranny in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata. The fifth and final chapter sees to the convergence of the speciously opposite forms and themes. Tragedy is brought together with comedy, poetry with philosophy, and theater with ordinary life under the auspices of the twice-born god, Dionysus. The Dionysian, duplicitously evasive, nature is shown to be contemporaneous with the double-edged nature of shame. The contemplation of shame in Sophocles’ Oedipus and Aristophanes’ Clouds, aids the investigation of the humanity preserving and the corrupting role of shame in Plato’s Gorgias. The findings of the final chapter serve to locate the pressure points of pathology and tyranny as these recede into the tragicomic dramas of our lives
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2017
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
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Legrand, Eric. "Développement et mise en place de méthodes moléculaires pour le diagnostic et l'Epidémiologie des Mycobactéries dans la Région antilles-Guyane." Paris 6, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA066141.
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Bouyssou, Gerbert-Silvestre. "Le tyran grec, genèse et représentations d'un contre-modèle, Ve-1er siècle av. J.-C." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2019.
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Cette thèse d'histoire culturelle propose de réfléchir à la genèse et aux évolutions des représentations grecques du tyran, en lien avec les transformations des formes de pouvoir, du Ve au Ier siècle avant J.-C. La recherche porte sur l’ensemble du monde hellénique et s'appuie sur un corpus de sources variées, littéraires, historiques et philosophiques, épigraphiques ou numismatiques. L'enjeu est en effet de comprendre l'évolution des interactions entre, d'une part, les approches juridiques, politiques ou historiques des tyrans, et, d'autre part, leurs représentations philosophiques et littéraires. À l'époque classique les considérations politiques, institutionnelles ou juridiques s'articulèrent aux représentations d'ordre éthique exprimant des jugements de valeur condamnant la cruauté et la tryphè du tyran. Puis, à partir du IVe siècle, les lieux communs à l’oeuvre dans ses représentations le transformèrent en une figure du mauvais souverain caractérisé par l'hybris et la souillure qu'il répand au sein de la cité. Ce processus amena à faire progressivement du tyran un contre-modèle absolu, opposé à la cité classique comme à la figure du roi idéal de l'époque hellénistique. Figure de l'altérité et la marginalité, le tyran tient ainsi, paradoxalement, une place centrale dans les représentations politiques et philosophiques grecques : il représente l'ennemi contre lequel se soude la communauté politiqueThe present doctoral thesis in cultural history considers the genesis and evolutions of the Greek representations of the tyrants in relation to changes in the actual forms of power, from C5th to C1st B. C. The research includes the whole Greek area and is based on varied sources : literary, historical, philosophical, epigraphic or numismatic. The purpose is indeed to understand the evolution of the interactions between legal, political or historical approaches of the tyrants, and their literary and philosophical representations. During the Classical Age, The political, institutional or legal considerations were combined with the ethical representations condemning the cruelty and the tryphè of the tyrant. Then, from C4th onward, the stereotypes found in literature led to view the tyrant as a bad sovereign, characterized by hybris and by the blemish he spreads over the city. This process would progressively turn the tyrant into the absolute counter-model, as opposed to the Classical city as to the ideal Hellenistic monarch. A figure of otherness and marginality, the tyrant becomes the paradoxical focal point of the Greek political and philosophical representation : he embodies the enemy the political community unites against
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Herson-Roeser, Bennett. "“Those Claiming The Rights Of Freemen Are Themselves The Most Execrable Of Tyrants” / A Taste For Empire." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1616444316.
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White settlers in the Northwest Territory fashioned their self-understanding in racialized conceptions of property: landed and human. This thesis seeks to bring together competing strands of historiography to examine the interplay between these two forms of property and their production. Discursively, territorial petitions reveal the ideological language used by white settlers to racially justify dispossession, dislocation, and enslavement; whereas, physically, salt production, a procedure situated at the interstices of these interlocking processes, provides a view into the workings and effects of these rhetorics on the ground. Together, these areas of focus allow for insight not just into the activity of white settlers and the resistance of dispossessed Natives and enslaved Blacks, but also into the workings and creation of early American imperial state.
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Coleman, Judith Claire. "Holy vessels, tyrants, fools, and blind men : performing antinomianism and transgressive agency in English drama, 1450-1671." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1571.
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Over four chapters, this study extends and focuses recent critical work on religious sects in literature to examine five plays and one theatrical prose work from the late medieval period through the late seventeenth century in England. Specifically, this study charts the appearance and conduct of antinomians, or those whose faith in Christ is the sole guide for their actions and who eschew all outward behavioral constraints. Antinomianism is, in some ways, a logical step for newly empowered individual believers with no direct mediator between themselves and the Word, but it represents a dangerous potential for religious and social anarchy. For some of the characters I consider, antinomianism has been mapped onto them by modern literary critics precisely because their transgressive agency is so frightening to their contemporaries. For others, antinomianism is depicted as a positive mode of interacting with the unenlightened, but it is clear that these figures are allowed privilege outside the reach of mainstream believers. A negative parody of these normal believers is also represented in my project, and these characters' buffoonish misinterpretations and selfish motives negate any positive reading of their "liberating" antinomian belief.
All of these characters--whether positive, negative, or even truly antinomian at all--reveal a key anxiety about personal belief and the well-being of civic and religious society in the mercurial landscape of pre- and post-Reformation England and the atmosphere of social and religious uncertainty that preceded the English Civil War. As such, an attention to the interconnections between the works under primary study and those circulating in the culture at the time is crucial to accurately identifying and understanding the myriad shades of religious belief that populate the pages of literature and polemics alike. In part, my project works to create a more complete and nuanced picture of the religious and literary landscapes of early modern England.
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Frey, Ronald Michael. "The tyranny of singularity : masculinity as ideology and "hegemising" discourse /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20050114.114216/index.html.
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Moberg, Eira. "Från dokument till praktisk tillämpning : Hur upplevs miljöledningssystemet på Tyréns?" Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Business Administration and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-30.
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Utifrån ökade krav i samhället har det idag blivit allt viktigare för företag att jobba med sin miljöpåverkan. Ett sätt att göra detta kan vara att införa ett miljöledningssystem i den egna verksamheten. Det handlar här om att skapa ett styrsystem som genom dokument ska förmå integrera det tänkta miljöarbetet bland medarbetarna i organisationen, ett system där målet är att jobba med ständiga förbättringar. Tyréns är ett konsultföretag inom samhällsbyggnadssektorn som har ett miljöledningssystem certifierat enligt ISO 14001. På företaget arbetar man med ledningssystemet i alla de olika projekt som företagets konsulter utför. Syftet med denna studie är att visa hur miljöledningssystemet som idé fungerar i praktisk tillämpning hos Tyréns. Vidare är syftet också att åskådliggöra vilken betydelse dokumentstyrning har för konsulternas vardagliga arbete med miljö.
Projektet har utförts som en kvalitativ fallstudie och med utgångspunkt i ett socialkon-struktivistiskt perspektiv. Eftersom jag ser verkligheten som bestående av sociala kon-struktioner kan jag inte här leta efter en enda ”sanning” utan måste istället tolka det som konsulterna berättar för mig utifrån den personliga analys jag förmår göra.
Jag hittar fem grundläggande teman ur vad jag upplever de intervjuade konsulterna anser viktigt för att miljöarbetet ska fungera i Tyréns verksamhet. Dessa fem teman är: ”Miljö behöver vara en del av vardagen!”, ”Miljö får inte vara för krångligt!”, ”Miljö är levande!”, ”Man behöver veta att något är fel – inte exakt vad man ska göra åt det!” och ”Miljö berör alla!”.
Viljan att integrera miljöledningssystemet finns hos företaget, men det verkliga infö-randet kan bli problematiskt just eftersom det gäller att få alla individer med olika förutsättningar att bli intresserade av och verkligen förstå systemet.
Jag upplever att konsulterna tycker att saker som har med miljö att göra kan vara ganska komplexa. För att miljöarbetet ska smälta in naturligt i vardagen är en förutsättning att det finns tid och kunskap om hur man ska göra och att det ska vara lätt att förstå hur miljö hänger ihop med det egna projektet, för annars finns risken att man struntar i det. Styrning bara genom dokument upplevs svårt och vikten av den informella kommunikationen poängteras, samtidigt som många konsulter också pratar om regelbunden utbildning som någonting grundläggande för att miljöledningssystemet ska fungera.
The increasing demands of society have led to a growing awareness among companies to emphasize their influence on the environment. One way of doing this is by introducing an environmental management system into the business. It is all about creating a control system that, by documents, is supposed to integrate the environmental work of the company among its own personnel. The target is to achieve continual improvement. Tyréns is an enterprise of technical consulting that has an environmental system certified by ISO 14001. The aim of this study is to illustrate how the environmental management system, as an idea, works out in its application at Tyréns. I will also show what importance document control has for the consultants’ environmental work.
The project has been made as a qualitative case study as seen from a social constructivistic perspective. I see reality consisting of social constructions and therefore it is impossible for me trying to find one “truth”. Instead I have to interpret the information given to me by the consultants.
I have found five basic themes that I believe the interviewed people find important for their environmental work at Tyréns. These five themes are: “Environmental work has to be a part of the every day activities!”, “Environmental work can not be too complicated!”, “Environmental work is dynamic!”, “You have to know that something is wrong – not necessarily what to do about it!” and “Environmental work concerns everyone!”.
The will to integrate the environmental management system does exist at the company, but the true implementation can become problematical since you have to get all the individuals with different prerequisitions to be interested in, and truly understand the system.
I feel the consultants experience the environmental matters as rather complex. An important condition for the environmental work really being able to blend in is that there is enough time and knowledge for it. It must also be easy to understand how environmental issues connect with the consultant’s own project; otherwise there is a risk that the person doesn’t care about it. Controlling only by documents is thought to be hard and the importance of the informal communication is being emphasized. Many of the consultants also talk about regular education as something fundamental if the environmental management system is to work out properly.
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Andrews, Una Loreen. "Tyrone Guthrie and the open stage controversy in postwar Britain." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27597.pdf.
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Larlee, Deborah. "Proposed causes and consequences of petty tyranny in the workplace." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0004/MQ46262.pdf.
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Buckley, Ian M. M. "Rescripting the political romance : narratives of kingship, tyranny, and community." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2003. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/rescripting-the-political-romance(b6d18460-be63-4e95-9b04-4f2c2ef5a8e0).html.
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Without seeking to reify a category of 'political romances', this study explores the participation of five Middle English poems (Havelok, The Tale of Gamelyn, Sir Orfeo, Sir Gowther, Robert of cisyle), normally classed among the romances, in the cultural process of constructing and regulating contemporary understandings of good kingship, tyranny, and community. In their participation in this discourse these romances cross generic boundaries, interacting with textual traditions (including historiography, hagiography, folk tale, and the literature of complaint), inscribing ideologies contesting romance's world-view. This study attempts to trace the ideological impact of these generic interactions on romance models of rule, investigating whether these romances cross generic boundaries in search of an idiom in which to critique dominant models of power relations, or whether, in attempting to appropriate the discourse of other genres, they seek to bolster dominant ideology by containing the subversive energies of its textual opponents. If these romances are identified as cultural products of a dominant ideology striving to perpetuate its own ascendancy, then it is a dominant ideology in the process of adapting itself in response to changing pressures, the nature of which I attempt to recover by attending to these texts' constructions and reconstructions of the hero's identity. I approach these romances not so much as the expression of the ideology of the dominant stratum, but part of the production of that ideology, called forth in a continuing dynamic response to contending discourses. I conclude that the energies of the genres with which these romances interact refuse appropriation, challenging the monologism of romance and continuing in their new narrative environment to propose their own political solutions. The resulting dialogization of romance indicates romance's diminishing ability to provide convincing resolutions to the contradictions of a changing society and to address the aspirations of a changing audience, In the ideological adjustments made by these romances in the process of interacting with other genres can be glimpsed the end of romance's insistence on heroic, and hence kingly, autonomy, and the replacement of heroic autonomy by community as the subject of romance.
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Gallagher, Tom G. P. "The Balkans Since The Cold War: From Tyranny to Tragedy." Routledge, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3850.
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NoAt the end of the Cold War, the Balkan states of South East Europe were in crisis. They had emerged from two decades of hardline communism with their economies in disarray and authoritarian leaders poised to whip up nationalist feelings so as to cling on to power. The break up of Yugoslavia followed in 1991 along with prolonged instability in Romania, Bulgaria and Albania. The Balkans After The Cold War analyses these turbulent events, which led to violence on a scale not seen in Europe for nearly 50 years and offers a detailed critique of Western policy towards the region. This volume follows on from the recently published Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789 - 1989 - from the Ottomans to Milosevic, also by Tom Gallagher.
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McCloskey, Benjamin Orion. "Xenophon’s Kyrou Amathia: Deceitful Narrative and The Birth of Tyranny." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354721463.
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McCluskey, Fergal Cathal. "The development of Republican politics in East Tyrone, 1898-1918." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486256.
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The thesis deals with East Tyrone's importance as a crucible of republican politics, a cockpit of sectarian tension and the battleground between Redmondite Hibernianism and the emergent forces of republicanism. It examines the development of republican politics in the early C20, from a northern perspective, concentrating on how popular ideology is formed and how the two nationalist ideologies (constitutional and separatist) and their leaderships attempted to harness the rhetoric of popular nationalism to generate support for their respective movements. It is the first attempt to examine the rise of northern republican and Hibernian politics (at times complementary but more often contradictory forces). As such, East Tyrone is employed as a case study for an exam!nation of the career of Joseph Devlin, arguably northern nationalism's most influential political figure. A wide source base is employed, including R.I.C. reports, private papers, witness statements and the local press, to examine the rhetorical tools employed to achieve popular support and how this support legitimised national agendas often contradictory to grass roots' expectations and the message delivered to the popular constituency. The local case study is employed to gain a greater understanding of how events at the level of high politics affect ordinary people, at times altering political consciousness. The thesis, therefore, synthesises a detailed local study with the wider historiographical debate on a crucial period in local, national arid international history. The thesis is theoretically informed by the hegemonic theory of Antonio Gramsci, particularly in relation to the development of political consensus and ideology's crucial role in this process. The important question of the generation and development of popular ideology relies on the theory of George Rude as outlined in his work Ideology and Popular Rhetoric, (London, 1980).
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Rundle, David. "Of republics and tyrants : aspects of quattrocento humanist writings and their reception in England, c.1400-c.1460." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390401.
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Dubrana, Marie. "Rois, tyrans et chefs dans les Argonautiques de Valérius Flaccus : les enjeux de la représentation du pouvoir monarchique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040150.
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Cette thèse vise à préciser l’importance et le relief singulier que Valérius Flaccus donne aux figures du pouvoir monarchique dans les Argonautiques. Elle sollicite la vaste tradition littéraire antique portant sur les figures du bon roi et du tyran, ainsi que les représentations du pouvoir véhiculées par l’idéologie impériale, afin de déterminer quel regard spécifique ce poète porte sur une problématique universelle et quels procédés il met en œuvre pour rendre cette représentation originale et efficace. Ce travail, qui écarte tout parti pris référentiel,s’articule autour d’une étude des personnages.Le poète analyse les mécanismes de fonctionnement de la tyrannie. Il en souligne le caractère oppressant en faisant des tyrans les pivots de la narration épique et en théâtralisant fortement leurs apparitions, susceptibles de frapper le lecteur. Aux tyrans s’opposent de nombreux rois exerçant un pouvoir positif. Le poète grandit ces figures en les valorisant sur le plan éthique mais montre aussi de façon répétée leur chute ainsi que la stérilité de leur pouvoir afin de susciter la compassion du lecteur. L’élaboration du personnage de Jason se fait sur le même modèle que celle des bons rois. La mise en valeur des qualités du chef ne rend que plus saisissante sa déchéance future, sans cesse annoncée. L’inquiétude et le pessimisme se dégagent donc de cette représentation du pouvoir royal, conçu sous sa forme pervertie, la tyrannie, ou associé à la décadence.Cette thèse permet d’ajouter une contribution à l’histoire des représentations et de prendre la mesure des évolutions du genre épique, qui fait alors une place importante à la tragédie et aux effets pathétiquesThis thesis aims to specify the importance and the unique depth Valerius Flaccus gives to the figures of monarchic power in the Argonautica. It calls on the vast antique literary tradition which deals with the figures of the good king and the tyrant, as well as the representations of power carried by the imperial ideology, in order to determine what specific look this poet takes on an universal issue and what literary devices he uses to make this representation original and efficient. This work that rejects every referential bias is based on a study of the characters. The poet analyses how tyranny works. He underlines its oppressive nature by making tyrants the pivots of epic narration and by strongly dramatizing their appearances, which is likely to strike the reader. Numerous kingsembodying a positive power contrast with tyrants. The poet enhances these figures valuing them from an ethic point of view. But he also repeatedly shows their falls as well as the sterility of their power in order to arouse thereader’s sympathy. To elaborate the character of Jason he proceeds in the same way as for the good kings.Emphasizing the qualities of the leader makes his constantly announced future decline all the more striking andmoving. Anxiety and pessimism prevail in the representation of royal power, which is seen in its corrupted form,tyranny, or associated to decline.This thesis contributes to the history of representations and makes it possible to assess the evolutions of the epicgenre, which then affords an important place to tragedy and pathetic effects