On the Bookends of Democracy: Moralizing Classical Period Autocrats of Syracuse in Diodorus Siculus
| dc.contributor.author | Hetrick, Leah | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-07-08T16:12:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-07-08T16:12:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research analyzes Diodorus Siculus's "Library of History," namely the books which recount the lives and doings of the rulers of Syracuse before (485-465 BCE) and after (405-367 BCE) a sixty-year period of democracy. By using Diogenes, a program for reading and searching the databases that contain the utilized ancient texts in their original language, this thesis sets out to determine Diodorus's mission in penning his forty-book collection, which is recording history on the surface, but also explicitly and implicitly moralizing the leaders he discusses within to perpetuate didactic rhetoric. He accomplishes his goal by deliberately labeling the autocrats and comparing them to one another. The first chapter focuses on the differentiation of each Deinomenid brother—Gelon, Hieron, and Thrasybulus—via Diodorus's terminology, and the second on how Dionysius is compared to the former group considering a decades' long gap between autocratic rulers. Broadly, this research delves into topics of both ancient history and historiography. | en_US |
| dc.description.advisor | Marcaline Boyd | |
| dc.description.program | Ancient Greek & Roman Studies | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31091 | |
| dc.publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| dc.subject | Diodorus Siculus | en_US |
| dc.subject | Diogenes | en_US |
| dc.subject | Greek and Roman history | en_US |
| dc.subject | Historiography | en_US |
| dc.title | On the Bookends of Democracy: Moralizing Classical Period Autocrats of Syracuse in Diodorus Siculus | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |