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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 developme...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
1999, 1996.
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| Édition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction : Athenian democracy and the history of ideologies
- 2. Models and paradigms in ancient history
- 3. Public speech and the power of the people in democratic Athens
- 4. The Athenian revolution of 508/7 B.C. : violence, authority, and the origins of democracy
- 5. The rules of war in classical Greece
- 6. Thucydides, Pericles, and the strategy of defense
- 7. Power and oratory in democratic Athens : Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias
- 8. The nature of Athenian democracy
- 9. The Athenians and their democracy
- 10. How to criticize democracy in late fifth- and fourth-century Athens
- 11. The polis as a society : Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian social contract.