Category: History - Ancient
The seventh and sixth centuries B.C. constitute from many points of view one of the most momentous periods in the whole of the world’s history. No doubt the greatest final achievements of the Greek race belong to the two centuries that followed. But practically all that is mea...
The seventh and sixth centuries B.C. constitute from many points of view one of the most momentous periods in the whole of the world’s history. No doubt the greatest final achie...
2. Chapter II. _AthensOf all the tyrants of the seventh and sixth centuries none are so well known to us as those who reigned at Athens. No other city has left us so clear a picture of the state of t...
3. Chapter III. _SamosThe Samians had from early times been great shipbuilders and sailors. They were among the first of the Greeks to adopt the Corinthian invention of the trireme, somewhere about t...
4. Chapter IV. _EgyptThe sixth century tyrants of Athens and Samos may be regarded with some probability as rulers who had come to their power by means of their wealth. Before proceeding to deal wit...
5. Chapter V. _LydiaIn an enquiry into the connexions between the new form of government and the new form of wealth that both arose at the opening of the classical epoch Lydia has a special interes...
6. Chapter VI. _ArgosOur earliest account of the one tyrant of Argos is found in Herodotus and runs as follows: “and from the Peloponnesus came Leokedes the son of Pheidon the tyrant of the Argives,...
7. Chapter VII. _CorinthIn the passage of Thucydides[945] in which he associates the origin of tyranny with the acquisition of wealth, one other development is mentioned as characteristic of the age. “...
8. Chapter VIII. _Rome“All the historical labours bestowed on the early centuries of Rome will, in general, be wasted.”—Sir George Cornewall Lewis, _On the Credibility of Early Roman History_ (1855),...
9. Chapter IX. _Sicyon, Megara, Miletus, Ephesus, Leontini, Agrigentum,The tyranny at Sicyon lasted longer than in any other Greek state[1296]. It started about the same time as that of Cypselus at Corinth and continued in the same family for about...
10. Chapter I. If, as there maintained, his exhortations not to be won overby gains to exalt any tyrant and his complaints about tradesmen controlling the state all point to fears of a tyranny of wealth, then it is particularly likely that his alarm ma...
11. Chapter X. (a) _Capitalist Despots of the Age of Aristotle_, (b) _theStress has been laid on the influence that has been exercised by Dionysius of Syracuse upon all who have written about the early tyranny since he came to power. This of course d...
12. Chapter XI. _Conclusion“We adopted a law that if you bought an office you didn’t get it. I admit that that is contrary to all commercial principles, but I think it is pretty good political doctrine.”—...
13. chapter XXX. of the _Virginians_, speaks of Queen Victoria’s greatBury, _Pindar, Nem._ pp. 255–6. Bury’s arguments are scarcely affected by the question (Macan, _Hdt._ IV.-VI., vol. I. _ad_ VI. 127. 11; cp. _ibid._ _ad_ VI. 127. 2) whether an...