Democracy In Classical Athens
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Author | : Christopher Carey |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474286372 |
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For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the major Greek powers. This book traces the development and operation of the political system and explores its underlying principles. Christopher Carey assesses the ancient sources of the history of Athenian democracy and evaluates criticisms of the system, ancient and modern. He also provides a virtual tour of the political cityscape of ancient Athens, describing the main political sites and structures, including the theatre. With a new chapter covering religion in the democratic city, this second edition benefits from updates throughout that incorporate the latest research and recent archaeological findings in Athens. A clearer structure and layout make the book more accessible to students, as do extra images and maps along with a timeline of key events.
Author | : Jon Hesk |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521028714 |
Download Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is a study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way in which the telling of lies was a problem for the world's first democracy and compares this problem with the modern Western situation. There are major sections on Greek tragedy, comedy, oratory, historiography and philosophy.
Author | : Time-Life Books |
Publisher | : Time Life Medical |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download What Life was Like at the Dawn of Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Portrays Athens at the height of the Golden Age. Covrs the everyday lives of the citizens, women, foriegners and slaves. Examines training of the mind and the body, development of democracy, influence of various heroes and the gods of Mt. Olympus. Details Greek accomplishments in art, drama, sports, medicine, and philosophy.
Author | : David Pritchard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521190339 |
Download War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
Author | : Eric W. Robinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521843316 |
Download Democracy Beyond Athens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First full study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period outside Athens, which has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece; and to further our understanding of the nature of ancient democracy.
Author | : Kurt A. Raaflaub |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520258096 |
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"A balanced, high-quality analysis of the developing nature of Athenian political society and its relationship to 'democracy' as a timeless concept."—Mark Munn, author of The School of History
Author | : Claire Bidart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1108841430 |
Download Living in Networks Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.
Author | : David L. Stockton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Classical Athenian Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This critical study, designed for the modern reader, explains what the institutions of the classical Athenian democracy were, how they worked, and on what assumptions they were founded. Incorporating important recent work by historians, epigraphists, and archaeologists, Stockton traces thebroad development of the Athenian constitution from the reforms of Solon in the early sixth century to those of Ephialtes in the late 460s B.C., carefully examining the fully-developed democratic system of the post-Ephialtic period. Stockton translates all Greek terms and explains difficult essaysmaking the volume highly accessible to students of ancient and modern history, and to the general reader.
Author | : Nancy Evans |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520945484 |
Download Civic Rites Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy’s first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers a contemporary’s perspective on Athenian society. She vividly depicts the physical environment and the ancestral rituals that nourished the people of the earliest democratic state, demonstrating how religious concerns were embedded in Athenian governmental processes. The book’s lucid portrayals of the best-known Athenian festivals—honoring Athena, Demeter, and Dionysus—offer a balanced view of Athenian ritual and illustrate the range of such customs in fifth-century Athens.
Author | : Josiah Ober |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691217971 |
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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 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. When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that have placed the concept of rights at the center of modern political thought. Thus the play of power that constituted life in democratic Athens is revealed as at once strangely familiar and desperately foreign, and the values sustaining the Athenian political community as simultaneously admirable and terrifying.