Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance is the excellent result of a conference entitled the ‘Second Day of the Bad King’ organised at Princeton University in March 2011 by Nikos Panou and Hester Schadee, the volume’s editors. This was a sequel to the earlier 2010 conference ‘Bad Kings’, also organised at Princeton University by Nino Luraghi (Ch.1). The present volume offers eleven chapters on aspects of ‘bad rule’ covering a wide geographic and chronological span, stretching from Archaic Greece and Late Republican Rome to the Medieval Carolingians and Renaissance-era Florence.