DEMOKRATIA: A CONVERSATION ON DEMOCRACIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

OBER, Josiah, Charles Hedrick (Edits).

ISBN 10: 0691011095 / ISBN 13: 9780691011097

Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996

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8vo. pp xix, 466. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered silver at the spine. Contributors include: Sheldon S. Wolin, Mogens Herman Hansen, Robert W. Wallace, Kurt A. Raaflaub, Alan Boegehold, Susan Guettel Cole, Carol Dougherty, Victor D. Hanson. ISBN: 0691011095 Clean, very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEMOKRATIA: A CONVERSATION ON DEMOCRACIES, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691011095
• ISBN 13: 9780691011097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis

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.


The contributors are Benjamin R. Barber, Alan Boegehold, Paul Cartledge, Susan Guettel Cole, W. Robert Connor, Carol Dougherty, J. Peter Euben, Mogens H. Hansen, Victor D. Hanson, Carnes Lord, Philip Brook Manville, Ian Morris, Martin Ostwald, Kurt Raaflaub, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Barry S. Strauss, Robert W. Wallace, Sheldon S. Wolin, and Ellen Meiksins Wood.

About the Author

Josiah Ober is the David Magie Professor of Ancient History in the Classics Department of Princeton University. Charles Hedrick is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.