Leadership in the Ancient World

Melina Tamiolaki is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Philology at the University of Crete, and a Collaborating Faculty Member at IMS/FORTH. She is the author of Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques (2010; Zappas Award of the Association des Etudes Grecques 2011) and the editor/co-editor of several collective volumes, of which the most recent is (with Tim Rood), Xenophon's Anabasis and its Legacy (2022). As of September 2024, she serves as Vice-Rector of Development, International Relations and Outlook of the University of Crete.

• 1. Leadership in third-millennium Mesopotamia Sebastian Fink; 2. Leadership in rural Pharaonic Egypt: Village chiefs, small potentates and informal networks of power in the provincial world Juan Carlos Moreno García; 3. The importance of religion in Achaemenid leadership Reza Shaghaghi Zarghamee; 4. Leadership in ancient China Yuri Pines; 5. Public generosity and models of leadership in classical Athens: the case of Demosthenes Marc Domingo Gygax; 6. Divine kingship as reflected in Deuterocanonical literature: a challenge for Jewish thought in the Hellenistic period Beate Ego; 7. Cicero, Octavian and the failure of Republican leadership Jonathan Zarecki; 8. Ciceronian aspects of leadership in Livy's Ab Vrbe Condita Georgios Vassiliades; 9. Imperial and episcopal leadership Networks in the later Roman empire Bronwen Neil; 10. Concluding remarks Norman Sandridge.