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| Title | Tyrannis und das Problem der Macht. die Gesichten Herodots über Kypselos und Periander von Korinth |
| Author | Stahl, M. |
| Keywords | Religious and Moral, Tyrants |
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| Pub. Date | 1983 |
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| Journal | Hermes |
| Journal Issue | 111 |
| Pages | 202-220 |
| editor | shapiro |
| Comments | For Herodotus, tyranny is above all a phenomenon of power, that an individual can possess. He is concerned with the question, what dangers such a possession of power contains within itself and to what consequences power leads. Decisive for him in this regard is the general dissolution of moral character which is visible in the membership of a commonwealth. Therefore, Herodotus rejects tyranny. |
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