The Last Tyrants of Athens

This paper deals with the complex situation that lived Athens at the first decades of the Ist Century BC. Between the good and advantageous relations with Rome, that led Athens to big benefits from the control of the Delian markets, and the hard sack of the city by the troops of Sulla in March 86, t...

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Autor: Antela Bernárdez, Borja|||0000-0002-3118-3300
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:214767
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/214767
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/karanos.34
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mithridatic Athens
Medeios of the Piraeus
Athenion
Aristion
Delian business
Social conflict
Economic crisis
Atenas mitridática
Medeo del Pireo
Atenión
Aristión
Negocios Delios
Conflicto social
Crisis económica
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Sumario:This paper deals with the complex situation that lived Athens at the first decades of the Ist Century BC. Between the good and advantageous relations with Rome, that led Athens to big benefits from the control of the Delian markets, and the hard sack of the city by the troops of Sulla in March 86, the city suffered an economical crisis that derived in political instability. The government of Athens finally was hold by some persons who acted like tyrants, in a moment when events and historical context (social conflict and economical crisis) seems to remember the situation that produced the historical phenomenon of the Greek Tyranny.