Stability And Crisis In The Athenian Democracy
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Author | : Gabriel Herman |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden gmbh |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783515098670 |
Was the Athenian democracy anarchic, given to domestic violence and hence unstable, as claimed by some scholars, or was it a stable, well-ordered, social system, provided with in-built mechanisms to overcome crisis? Various aspects of this question, central to the understanding of the Athenian democracy, are investigated in this volume by a team of distinguished experts. The often surprising answers they provide should be of interest to specialists as well as laymen. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Alexander Fuks.
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 | : Mark Christopher Carnes |
Publisher | : Longman |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Athens (Greece) |
ISBN | : 9780321333032 |
Innovative and engaging, The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores the intellectual dynamics of democracy by recreating the historical context that shaped its evolution. Part of the "Reacting to the Past" series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment. Issues of the time are sorted out by a polity fractured into radical and moderate democrats, oligarchs, and Socratics, among others.
Author | : John R. Wallach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1108422578 |
Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Author | : David M. Pritchard |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 029277205X |
In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and “the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians.” This view of the Athenians’ misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh’s 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmos for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians’ priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh’s time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people.
Author | : Alexander Rubel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131754479X |
Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek religion. The book explores an extraordinary range of events and topics, and will be an indispensable study for students and scholars studying Athenian religion and politics.
Author | : Norman Abjorensen |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 551 |
Release | : 2019-06-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1538120747 |
Democracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested subject. What this volume seeks to do is to explore the general evolution of political and social thinking that would eventually coalesce into what we now know as democracy, for all its imperfections and shortcomings. The question of just why some societies evolved into a democratic trajectory and others did not continues to engage the interest of historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Much conjecture surrounds the rise of certain elements we now recognize if not as democratic, then proto-democratic, such as collective decision-making, constraints on the exercise of power and a degree of accountability of the ruler to the ruled. If democracy in the sense of “rule by the people” has two essential qualities – rule by the majority and the equal treatment of free citizens - then its origins, however feeble, are to be found in these early examples of government. Historical Dictionary of Democracy contains a chronology, an introduction, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about democracy.
Author | : Adriaan Lanni |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521198801 |
This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.
Author | : Daniel Jew |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2016-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316839516 |
M. I. Finley (1912–86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar to tens of thousands of radio listeners, his polemical reviews and other journalism were found all over the broadsheets and weeklies, and his scholarly as well as his popular works sold in very large numbers as Penguin paperbacks. Yet this was also a man dismissed from his job at Rutgers University when he refused to answer the question of whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party. This pioneering volume assesses Finley's achievements and analyses the nature of the impact of this charismatic individual and the means by which he changed the world of ancient history.
Author | : Judson Herrman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-07-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108658881 |
Demosthenes, as an emerging political leader in fourth-century Athens, delivered a series of fiery speeches to the citizens in the democratic Assembly, attacking the Macedonian king Philip II as an aggressive imperialist bent on destroying the city's independence. This volume presents the Greek text of five of these speeches with full introduction and detailed commentary. They show how the foremost politician of the day argued his case before the people who made policy decisions in the Assembly, and how he eventually persuaded them to support his doomed militaristic position in preference to the more pragmatic stance of accommodation advocated by his political opponents. These speeches are unique sources for the ideology and political history of this crucial period, and the best specimens of persuasive rhetoric in action from democratic Athens. This edition takes account of recent studies of fourth-century Athens and showcases Demosthenes as a master of Greek prose style.