Political dissent in democratic Athens : intellectual critics of popular rule /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ober, Josiah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Series:Martin classical lectures (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Democracy > Greece > Athens > Historiography.
Dissenters > Political activity > Greece > Athens.
Démocratie > Grèce > Athènes > Historiographie.
Dissidents > Activité politique > Grèce > Athènes.
HISTORY > Ancient.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Democracy > Historiography
Dissenters > Political activity
Intellectual life > Political aspects
Athens (Greece) > Intellectual life > Political aspects.
Athènes (Grèce) > Vie intellectuelle > Aspect politique.
Greece > Athens
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why dissent? Why Athens?
  • The problem of dissent: criticism as contest
  • Public speech and brute fact: Thucydides
  • Essence and enactment: Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae
  • Justice, knowledge, power: Plato Apology, Crito, Gorgias, Republic
  • Eloquence, leadership, memory: Isocrates Antidosis and Areopagiticus
  • Political animals, actual citizens, and the best possible polis: Aristotle Politics
  • The dialectics of dissent: Criticism as dialogue.

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