Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Wenn Macht und Dichtung sich begegnen – Polykrates und Anakreon im Lichte der griechischen Literatur
- The Cypriot Kings under Assyrian and Persian Rule (Eighth to Fourth Century BC): Centre and Periphery in a Relationship of Suzerainty
- The Cypriot Kings: Despots or Democrats or...? Remarks on Cypriot Kingship Especially in the Time of Persian Suzerainty
- Sparta, Its Fleet, and the Aegean Islands in 387–375 BC
- The Aegean Islands in the Politics of the Attalid Dynasty
- Les formes de dépendance en mutation dans l’île de Crète à l’époque hellénistique à la lumière des conventions d'asylie concernant téos
- Prolegomena to a Dossier: Inscriptions from the Asklepieion at Lissos (Crete)
- Wines from Cyprus and Cilicia in Antiquity: Taste and Trade
- From Independence to Dependence: the Administrative Status of the Aegean Islands from 129 BC to 294 AD
- Aideen Carty, Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos: New Light on Archaic Greece, (Historia Einzelschriften 236), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 260 S., ISBN 978-3-515-10898-0 (Jakub Kuciak)
- Julien Monerie D'Alexandre à Zoilos. Dictionnaire prosopographique des porteurs de nom grec dans les sources cunéiformes (Oriens et Occidens 23), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, 225 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10956-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Henning Börm, Antimonarchic Discourse in Antiquity, (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 352 pp., 2 b/w ill. ISBN 978-3-515-11095-2 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- M. Jehne and F. Pina Polo, Foreign Clientelae in the Roman Empire. A Reconsideration (Historia Einzelschriften 238), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 374 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11061-7 (Maciej Piegdoń)
- Juan Manuel Cortés Copete, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Fernando Lozano Gómez, Ruling the Greek World. Approaches to the Roman Empire in the East (Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 52), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 192 pp., ISBN 978-3-515-11135-5 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Annika B. Kuhn, Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 342 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-11090-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Menahem Mor, The Second Jewish Revolt. The Bar Kokhba War, 132–136 CE (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism – vol. 50), Brill: Leiden–Boston 2016, 594 pp., ill., ISSN 1571-5000; ISBN 978-90-04-31462-7 (Edward Dąbrowa)
- Mischa Meier, Christine Radtki, Fabian Schulz, Die Weltchronik des Johannes Malalas. Author – Werk – Überlieferung (Malalas Studien 1), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, 310 pp., ISBN 879-3-515-11099-0
- J.G. Manning, Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the “Hellenization of Asia” (Oriens et Occidens 24), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 153 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10948-2; J. H. Richardson, F. Santangelo (eds.), Andreas Alföldi in the Twenty-First Century (HABES 56), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, 327 pp., b/w ill., ISBN 978-3-515-10961-1 (Edward Dąbrowa)
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Summary
Abstract: In the first part of the contribution current interpretations of Cypriot kingship are critically discussed. In the second part, as far as epigraphical and literary evidence allows, some features of Cypriot royal rule, especially those regarding the kings’ power, are expounded with more or less certainty, and without trying to give a complete picture of Cypriot kingship.
Key words: Cyprus, Cypriot kingship.
This article and that of Christian Körner in the same volume of Electrum go back to papers delivered at the conference “Kleinkönige und starke Verwalter: Macht und Bedeutung lokaler und regionaler Herrschaft im östlichen Mittelmeer und dem Vorderen Orient von der assyrischen bis sasanidischen Zeit,” which was organised by Stefan Hauser and Henning Börm and held in Konstanz on 30 September and 1 October, 2013. Both articles refer to each other. Christian Körner has written a book dealing exhaustively with the Cypriot city kingdoms and Cypriot kingship which will appear in this year, while I have written several articles on Hellenistic Cyprus reverting more or less to the period of the city kings, and a few articles on the Cypriot city kingdoms and the transition from Cyprus of the city kingdoms to Ptolemaic Cyprus. For my present topic, I refer explicitly to my own publications and my articles in press.1 Since in Körner's future book both the historical Cypriot kingdoms and Cypriot city kingship form the central topic, I deliver – in close cooperation with Körner, whom I thank for much advice – only a sketch of what may have been Cypriot city kingship.
I must start by giving two hints important for understanding the topic of this paper: in the period of the ancient Cypriot city kingdoms, as far as we have written evidence at our disposal, the island was under foreign suzerainty, i.e. indirect rule, for a long time that of the Middle Eastern empires of the Assyrians and Persians respectively their kings, and for a short time that of Alexander the Great and some of his first successors.
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- Cyprus, Crete and the Aegean Islands in Antiquity , pp. 51 - 64Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2017