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The Athenian Revolution : Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgment
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Athenian Democracy and the History of Ideologies
- CHAPTER 2. Models and Paradigms in Ancient History
- CHAPTER 3. Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens
- CHAPTER 4. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy
- CHAPTER 5. The Rules of War in Classical Greece
- CHAPTER 6. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense
- CHAPTER 7. Power and Oratory in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidia
- CHAPTER 8. The Nature of Athenian Democracy
- CHAPTER 9. The Athenians and Their Democracy
- CHAPTER 10. How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens
- CHAPTER 11. The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and die Athenian Social Contract
- Bibliography
- Index