In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democratic thought. In Democracy: A Life, Paul Cartledge provides a detailed history of this ancient political system.
In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Western tradition of anti-democratic thought. In Democracy: A Life, Paul Cartledge provides a detailed history of this ancient political system.
Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. He is an honorary citizen of modern Sparta and holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor awarded by the President of Greece. His previous books include The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1997, 2002), The Spartans (Random House, 2004), Alexander the Great (Random House, 2005), Thermopylae (Random House, 2007), Ancient Greece (OUP, 2009), and After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars (OUP, 2013).
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* Preface and Acknowledgements * Timeline * Prologue: Lost in Translation? * ACT I * 1: Sources, Ancient and Modern * 2: The Emergence of the Polis, Politics, and the Political * ACT II * 3: The Emergence of Greek Democracy I: Archaic Greece * 4: The Emergence of Greek Democracy II: Athens 508/7 * 5: The Emergence of Greek Democracy III: Athens 507-451/0 * 6: Greek Democratic Theory? * 7: Athenian Democracy in Practice c. 450-335 * 8: Athenian Democracy: Culture and Society c. 450-335 * 9: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis I: The Fifth Century * 10: Athenian Democracy in Court: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and Ctesiphon * ACT III * 11: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c. 375-350) and Its Critics * 12: Athenian Democracy at Work in the 'Age of Lycurgus' * 13: The Strange Death of Classical Greek Democracy: A Retrospect * ACT IV * 14: Hellenistic Democracy? Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE * 15: The Roman Republic: A sort of Democracy? * 16: Democracy Denied: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires * 17: Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance * ACT V * 18: Democracy Revived: England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries * 19: Democracy Reinvented: The United States in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America * 20: Democracy Tamed: Nineteenth-Century Great Britain * Epilogue: Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects * Afterword * Notes and References * Bibliography and Further Reading * Index
* Preface and Acknowledgements * Timeline * Prologue: Lost in Translation? * ACT I * 1: Sources, Ancient and Modern * 2: The Emergence of the Polis, Politics, and the Political * ACT II * 3: The Emergence of Greek Democracy I: Archaic Greece * 4: The Emergence of Greek Democracy II: Athens 508/7 * 5: The Emergence of Greek Democracy III: Athens 507-451/0 * 6: Greek Democratic Theory? * 7: Athenian Democracy in Practice c. 450-335 * 8: Athenian Democracy: Culture and Society c. 450-335 * 9: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis I: The Fifth Century * 10: Athenian Democracy in Court: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and Ctesiphon * ACT III * 11: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c. 375-350) and Its Critics * 12: Athenian Democracy at Work in the 'Age of Lycurgus' * 13: The Strange Death of Classical Greek Democracy: A Retrospect * ACT IV * 14: Hellenistic Democracy? Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE * 15: The Roman Republic: A sort of Democracy? * 16: Democracy Denied: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires * 17: Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance * ACT V * 18: Democracy Revived: England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries * 19: Democracy Reinvented: The United States in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America * 20: Democracy Tamed: Nineteenth-Century Great Britain * Epilogue: Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects * Afterword * Notes and References * Bibliography and Further Reading * Index
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