Sport Democracy And War In Classical Athens
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Author | : David Pritchard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110700733X |
This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors.
Author | : David Pritchard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108422918 |
Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.
Author | : Paul Christesen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2012-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139576798 |
This book explores the relationship between sport and democratization. Drawing on sociological and historical methodologies, it provides a framework for understanding how sport affects the level of egalitarianism in the society in which it is played. The author distinguishes between horizontal sport, which embodies and fosters egalitarian relations, and vertical sport, which embodies and fosters hierarchical relations. Christesen also differentiates between societies in which sport is played and watched on a mass scale and those in which it is an ancillary activity. Using ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain as case studies, Christesen analyzes how these variables interact and finds that horizontal mass sport has the capacity to both promote and inhibit democratization at a societal level. He concludes that horizontal mass sport tends to reinforce and extend democratization.
Author | : David Pritchard |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2010-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521190339 |
Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
Author | : Donald G. Kyle |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004097599 |
Author | : Loren J. Samons |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520251687 |
"This is unlike any recent work I know of. It offers a challenging, often refreshing, and what will certainly be a controversial assessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance to modern America. Samons is willing to tread where few other classicists are willing to go in print. He reminds readers that the Athenian democracy offers just as many negative lessons as positive ones, and topics like the popular vote, the dangers of state payments to individual citizens, the naturally acquisitive foreign policy of democratic governments, and the place of religion in democracy all come up for discussion and criticism. Samons has written an original and very provocative book."—James Sickinger, author of Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens "Professor Samons' lively and challenging account of ancient Athens raises important questions about democracy, ancient and modern. It will surely arouse keen interest and debate."—Donald Kagan, author of The Peloponnesian War "In this elegantly written, carefully researched, and perceptive book, Samons presents a penetrating analysis of ancient Athenian democracy's dark sides. His book is as much about the errors and weaknesses of our own political system as it is about those of ancient Athens. Whether or not we agree with his critique and conclusions, this book is not merely thought-provoking: it is annoyingly discomforting, forcing us to re-examine firm beliefs and to discard easy solutions."—Kurt A. Raaflaub, author of Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece "In this marvelously unfashionable book, Samons debunks much of what passes in the current-day academy as scholarship on classical Athens, demonstrating that it is an ideologically-driven apology for a radically defective form of government. In the process, he casts light on the perspicacity of America's founding fathers and on the unthinking populism that threatens in our own day to ruin their legacy."—Paul A. Rahe, author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution "We are in the greatest age of democracy since antiquity and in the most need of guidance about the wisdom of government by majority vote. Precisely for that reason Professor Samons offers a bold and unbridled look at the nature and history of democracies, ancient and modern. He reminds us that we are capable of doing as much evil as good when constitutional protections and republican oversight are not there to moderate the instant desires of the majority. This is an engaging, provocative, and timely study of ancient Athens and modern America that should serve as a cautionary reminder to both romantic scholars and zealous diplomats."—Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Other Greeks
Author | : Hugh Bowden |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2005-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521823739 |
The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's age of democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which concern to do the will of the gods affected Athenian politics, challenging the notion that Athenian democracy may be seen as a model for modern secular democratic constitutions. All the known consultations of the oracle by Athens in the period before 300 BC are examined, and descriptions of consultations found in Attic tragedy and comedy are discussed. This work provides a new account of how the Delphic oracle functioned and presents a thorough analysis of the relationship between the Athenians and the oracle, making it essential reading both for students of the oracle itself and of Athenian democracy.
Author | : Kurt A. Raaflaub |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520258096 |
"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 | : John R. Hale |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780670020805 |
Presents a history of the epic battles, the indomitable ships, and the men--from extraordinary leaders to seductive rogues--who established Athens' supremacy, taking readers on a tour of the far-flung expeditions and detailing the legacy of a forgotten maritime empire.
Author | : Josiah Ober |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2001-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691089817 |
Since it was no longer self-evident that "better men" meant "better government," critics of democracy sought new arguments to explain the relationship among politics, ethics, and morality.