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THE GREEK POLIS AND THE INVENTION OF DEMOCRACY
A POLITICO-CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND ITS INTERPRETATIONS |
| By: |
Peter Wagner (Editor), Johann Pall Arnason (Editor), Kurt A. Raaflaub (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£134.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444351060 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444351064 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
23 April, 2013 |
| Series: |
Ancient World: Comparative Histories |
| Pages: |
410 |
| Description: |
This book presents a comprehensive series of readings that trace the Greeks path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy from a comparative historical perspective. |
| Synopsis: |
The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries.* Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government * Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece * Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world * Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought * Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |