附註:Originally published in 1956.
美國加州大學柏克萊分校Dunbar H. Ogden教授(賴聲川老師博士論文指導教授)2006年捐贈.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. The Background of Tyranny --- 2. The Word Tyrant --- 3. The Military Factor: Pheidon of Argos --- 4. The Overthrow of an Aristocracy at Corinth --- 5. The Racial Factor: Cleisthenes and Others --- 6. The Spartan Alternative to Tyranny --- 7. The Economic Factor: Solon of Athens --- 8. Aristocratic Disorder at Mytilene --- 9. Peisistratus and the Consolidation of Attica --- 10. The Threat of Persian Conquest --- 11. Military Monarchy in Sicily --- 12. Epilogue.
摘要:Gives an account not only of the tyrants, but of early Greek history before the tyrants (7th & 8th century B.C). and goes to Greece's fall to Rome.