Athens on Trial : : The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought / / Jennifer Tolbert Roberts.
The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime Rorschach test for political thought. W...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Chapter One: Introduction
- PART ONE: CLASSICAL GREECE
- Chapter Two. The Athenian Experiment
- Chapter Three. The First Attacks on Athenian Democracy
- Chapter Four. Democracy and the Philosophers
- PART TWO: PLAYING WITH THE PAST
- Introduction
- Chapter Five. Roman Adaptations
- Chapter Six. Recovering the Greeks
- Chapter Seven. Monarchists and Republicans
- Chapter Eight. The Debate over Athens and Sparta
- Chapter Nine. Athenian Democracy in the Age of Revolutions
- Chapter Ten. A Shift in the Sands
- PART THREE: MODERN TRANSFORMATIONS
- Chapter Eleven. The Turning of the Tide
- Chapter Twelve. Athenians and Others
- Chapter Thirteen. Epilogue: The Old and the New
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX