For an excellent up-to-date overview of the political development of Greece from the Late Bronze to the Archaic Period see Hall 2007. For a superb recent discussion of historical tyranny in Archaic Greece, see G. Anderson 2005 (with earlier bibliography cited). On the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens, see Lavelle 2005 and Forsdyke 2005a: 101-33. For fifth and fourth century tyranny and tyrannies outside mainland Greece, including the Black Sea, Sicily, and even Rome, see Brock and Hodkinson 2000 and Lewis 2006. On oligarchy, see Ostwald 2000. On the Macedonian kings, see Lewis et al. 1994.
On kingship in Homer, see Raaflaub 1997 and Osborne 2004. On Solon and the relation between his poetry and politics in Athens, see Blok and Lardinois 2006. For the ideological construction of tyranny in the classical period, see the essays in Morgan 2003 and S. Lewis 2006. For a fascinating argument for the ambiguity of the concept of tyranny even among democratic Athenians, see Wohl 2002. For the representation of oriental kings and Greek tyrants in Herodotus and Greek tragedy, see Dewald 2003; Seaford 2003; Pelling 2002; Forsdyke 2001.
For fourth century political thought, see Ober 1998, chs 4 -6 and Rowe and Schofield 2000, chs 6-19. An excellent recent overview of Plato’s political thought can be found in Schofield 2006. On Plato’s Laws, see Bobonich 2002; Laks 2000. On the reception of Greek political thought and ideologies in the modern era see Roberts 1994 and Osborne 2006. Scholars continue to debate the importance of ancient Greek political thought and experience to contemporary democracy; see, for example, Rhodes 2003a and Ober 2005c.
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