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Author Ober, Josiah

Title The Athenian revolution : essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory / Josiah Ober
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996

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Description 1 online resource (212 p.)
Contents 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
Summary 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 direct democracy for upper- and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history
Analysis Athens (Greece) Politics and government
Democracy Greece Athens History
Democracy History Greece Athens
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index
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Subject Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
Democracy
Democratie.
Politieke situatie.
Griekse oudheid.
Idées politiques -- Grèce -- Athènes (Grèce) -- Antiquité.
Démocratie -- Grèce -- Athènes (Grèce) -- Antiquité.
Greece -- Athens
Athènes (Grèce) -- Politique et gouvernement -- Antiquité.
Grèce -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e siècle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021700942
ISBN 9780691217970
0691217971