Edward Dąbrowa: Introduction

Sebastian Fink: Oriental Despots in the Inscriptions of Assurbanipal

Josef Fischer: Some Remarks on Mycenaean Kingship

Francesca Gazzano: Lydian Autocracy as Seen by the Greeks

Jakub Kuciak: Warum es sich nicht lohnt, Ratgebern zu folgen – der Fall des Polykrates und des Amasis

Matthias Haake: The Writing Tyrant in Ancient Greece: From the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period. Some First Thoughts on Autocratic Authorship in Antiquity

Tomasz Grabowski: Attalids Attitude to Greek Cities after 188 BC: Selected Issues

Stefano G. Caneva: A ‘contagion’ of sōtēria: Hellenistic Kingship and Collective Salvation between Political and Religious Discourse

Edward Dąbrowa: Attributes of Power of the Hasmoneans (152–76 BCE) as an Expression of their Political Standing

Marcin N. Pawlak: C. Iulius Eurycles and His Position in Late Hellenistic Sparta

Rolf Strootman: Cleopatra’s Languages

Jesper Majbom Madsen: Fear of Democracy and the Need of Autocracy in Cassius Dio’s Political Thinking

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