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Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece Hardcover - 1997

by Daniel Ogden


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By comparing traditional narratives concerning archaic colonists and tyrants, Ogden shows that monarchic rulers in archaic Greece were often paradoxically conceptualized as deformed scapegoats or as evil malformed babies of sinister birth. This way of thinking helped to explain their extraordinary power, for they embodied in their twisted limbs a terrible pollution that enabled them to overthrow their communities. The author considers a diverse range of related themes, including the myth of Oedipus, the fables of Aesop, the meanings attached to monkeys, pigs and mice, demonic cooks, the characters of early farce, Spartan hairstyles, and the beginnings of Greek democracy and ostracism at Athens.

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  • Title Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece
  • Author Daniel Ogden
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
  • Date 1997-04-03
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
  • ISBN 9780715627167 / 0715627163
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.2 x 0.91 in (24.23 x 15.75 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Greece - Kings and rulers, Greece - Politics and government - To 146 B.C
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97149840
  • Dewey Decimal Code 938.01
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