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Demokratia : A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern
Title
Demokratia : A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern / Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick, editors.
ISBN
9780691227887
9780691011080
9780691011097
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (496 pages).
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Summary
This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek democracy and its contemporary relevance. The nineteen contributors remain diverse in their political commitments and in their analytic approaches, but all have engaged deeply with Greek texts, with normative and historical concerns, and with each others' arguments. The issues and tensions examined here are basic to both history and political theory: revolution versus stability, freedom and equality, law and popular sovereignty, cultural ideals and social practice. While the authors are sharply critical of many aspects of Athenian society, culture, and government, they are united by a conviction that classical Athenian democracy has once again become a centrally important subject for political debate.
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Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Series
Princeton paperbacks
Contents
The strong principle of equality and the archaic origins of Greek democracy / Ian Morris
Shares and rights: "citizenship" Greek style and American style / Martin Ostwald
Transgression, equality, and voice / Sheldon S. Wolin
The ancient Athenian and the modern liberal view of liberty as a democratic ideal / Mogens Herman Hansen
Law, freedom, and the concept of citizens' rights in democratic Athens / Robert W. Wallace
Demos versus "We, the People": freedom and democracy ancient and modern / Ellen Meiksins Wood
Equalities and inequalities in Athenian democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub
Comparatively equal / Paul Cartledge
Athenian equality: a constant surrounded by flux / Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Resistance to change in the law at Athens / Alan Boegehold
Civil society, dionysiac festival, and the Athenian democracy / W. Robert Connor
Oath ritual and the male community at Athens / Susan Guettel Cole
Democratic contradictions and the synoptic illusion of Euripides' Ion / Carol Dougherty
Aristotle and the idea of liberal education / Carnes Lord
Hoplites into democrats: the changing ideology of Athenian infantry / Victor D. Hanson
The Athenian trireme, school of democracy / Barry S. Strauss
Reading democracy: "Socratic" dialogues and the political education of democratic citizens / J. Peter Euben
Misreading democracry: Peter Euben and the Gorgias / Benjamin R. Barber
Ancient Greek democracy and the modern knowledge-based organization: reflections on the ideology of two revolutions / Philip Brook Manville.
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