Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens : : Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People / / Josiah Ober.
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Ober, Josiah, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens : Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People / Josiah Ober. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©1989 1 online resource (408 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER I. Democracy: Athenian and Modern -- CHAPTER II. History of the Athenian "Constitution": A Diachronic Survey -- CHAPTER III. Public Speakers and Mass Audiences -- CHAPTER IV. Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion -- CHAPTER V. Class: Wealth, Resentment, and Gratitude -- CHAPTER VI. Status: Noble Birth and Aristocratic Behavior -- CHAPTER VII. Conclusions: Dialectics and Discourse -- Appendix: Catalogue of Speeches and Citation Index -- Select Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and nonelite citizens. After a preliminary survey of the development of the Athenian "constitution," he focuses on the role of political and legal rhetoric. As jurymen and Assemblymen, the citizen masses of Athens retained important powers, and elite Athenian politicians and litigants needed to address these large bodies of ordinary citizens in terms understandable and acceptable to the audience. This book probes the social strategies behind the rhetorical tactics employed by elite speakers. A close reading of the speeches exposes both egalitarian and elitist elements in Athenian popular ideology. Ober demonstrates that the vocabulary of public speech constituted a democratic discourse that allowed the Athenians to resolve contradictions between the ideal of political equality and the reality of social inequality. His radical reevaluation of leadership and political power in classical Athens restores key elements of the social and ideological context of the first western democracy. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691028644 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820511 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400820511 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400820511.jpg |
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Ober, Josiah, Ober, Josiah, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens : Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People / Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER I. Democracy: Athenian and Modern -- CHAPTER II. History of the Athenian "Constitution": A Diachronic Survey -- CHAPTER III. Public Speakers and Mass Audiences -- CHAPTER IV. Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion -- CHAPTER V. Class: Wealth, Resentment, and Gratitude -- CHAPTER VI. Status: Noble Birth and Aristocratic Behavior -- CHAPTER VII. Conclusions: Dialectics and Discourse -- Appendix: Catalogue of Speeches and Citation Index -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER I. Democracy: Athenian and Modern -- CHAPTER II. History of the Athenian "Constitution": A Diachronic Survey -- CHAPTER III. Public Speakers and Mass Audiences -- CHAPTER IV. Ability and Education: The Power of Persuasion -- CHAPTER V. Class: Wealth, Resentment, and Gratitude -- CHAPTER VI. Status: Noble Birth and Aristocratic Behavior -- CHAPTER VII. Conclusions: Dialectics and Discourse -- Appendix: Catalogue of Speeches and Citation Index -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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