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The Athenian revolution : essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory /
Where did "democracy" come from, and what is 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 d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Introduction: Athenian democracy and the history of ideologies
- Ch. 2. Models and paradigms in ancient history
- Ch. 3. Public speech and the power of the people in democratic Athens
- Ch. 4. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: violence, authority, and the origins of democracy
- Ch. 5. The rules of war in classical Greece
- Ch. 6. Thucydides, Pericles, and the strategy of defense
- Ch. 7. Power and oratory in democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias
- Ch. 8. The nature of Athenian democracy
- Ch. 9. The Athenians and their democracy
- Ch. 10. How to criticize democracy in late fifth- and fourth-century Athens
- Ch. 11. The Polis as a society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian social contract.