Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People
First, the book is meant to be a contribution to Greek history: an attempt to explain the social roots and internal functioning of the political system of an ancient city-state. I hope that many of those who consider the history and culture of fifth-and fourth-century Athens intrinsically...
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First, the book is meant to be a contribution to Greek history: an attempt to explain the social roots and internal functioning of the political system of an ancient city-state. I hope that many of those who consider the history and culture of fifth-and fourth-century Athens intrinsically interesting, as I do, will find this study valuable in formulating or reformulating their own assessments of classical Greece.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780691028644 (0691028648)
Publish date: July 9th 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 408
Edition language: English
Tiddlywinks. Basically... just playing with the tokens or counters (rearranging bits of text) unearthed by other (and real) scholars from 100 years ago ... imposing modern day political categories on ancient and archaic societies (where none of those categories fit or are in the least relevant, a p...
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