Origins of democracy in ancient Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace ; with chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar
- Author
- Raaflaub, Kurt A.
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Ober, Josiah and Wallace, Robert W., 1950-
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- Series
- Contents
- Introduction / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- "People's power" and egalitarian trends in archaic Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert W. Wallace -- Revolutions and a new order in solonian Athens and archaic Greece / Robert W. Wallace -- "I besieged that man" : democracy's revolutionary start / Josiah Ober -- The breakthrough of dēmokratia in mid-fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Democracy, origins of : contribution to a debate / Paul Cartledge -- Power to the people / Cynthia Farrar.
- Summary
- The contributors to this text present a debate about the origins of Athenian democracy. The result is a stimulating critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing topic.
- Subject(s)
- To 1500
- Democracy—Greece—History—To 1500
- Democracy—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Political Process—General
- HISTORY—Ancient—General
- Democracy
- Politics and government
- Greece—Politics and government—To 146 B.C.
- Athens (Greece)—Politics and government
- Grèce—Politique et gouvernement—Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
- Greece
- Greece—Athens
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780520932173 ebook
052093217X
0520245628 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520245624 (cloth : alk. paper)
1281752428
9781281752420
9781429440097
1429440090 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and indexes.
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