Abstract

A book launch event for the release of Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought by Daniel Unruh, published by Liverpool University Press. Dr. Unruh will present an introduction to the book and the research that led to it, followed by questions / general discussion.

Through a close reading of several Greek authors, in particular Herodotus, Xenophon, Isocrates and Plato, Talking to Tyrants details the different strategies that these authors depict, adopt, or recommend for enabling communication between the very different worlds of the Greek city state and the monarch’s court. The study is further informed by contemporary Intercultural Communications Theory, which provides a powerful framework for examining the ways in which individuals from different cultures and political systems interact.