Demokratia : a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern / edited by Josiah Ober, Charles Hedrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ober, Josiah, editor.

Hedrick, Charles W., Jr., 1956- editor.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Greece--Athens--History.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1996]

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [401]-447) and index.

ISBN:

9780691227887

0691227888

OCLC:

1273306333