Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens
Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 9 February 2023
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350214484
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 469
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What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building.
Comedies of Aristophanes (particularly Knights), tragedies of Euripides (particularly Iphigenia in Aulis), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly Anabasis and Cyropaedia) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes' Knights between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out - as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Friendship in Athenian Politics Prior to the Demagogues
Chapter 2: Cleon and the Rise of Friendship-Based Athenian Demagogy
Chapter 3: The Sociology of Making Individual Philoi among the Masses
Chapter 4: Distinguishing Desire from Friendship in Leadership Models in Aristophanes' Knights
Chapter 5: Later Developments of The "Leader as Philos" Model
Conclusion: Cleon and The Legacy of Leadership by Friendship
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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