Athenian Revolution Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory

Name: Athenian Revolution Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory
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ISBN: 9780691001906

ISBN-10: 0691001901

ISBN-13: 9780691001906

Edition: 1996

Authors: Josiah Ober

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Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history. When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era.…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/3/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Athenian Democracy and the History of Ideologies



Models and Paradigms in Ancient History



Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens



The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy



The Rules of War in Classical Greece



Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense



Power and Oratory in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias



The Nature of Athenian Democracy



The Athenians and Their Democracy



How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth-and Fourth-Century Athens



The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian Social Contract


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