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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190866273ISBN-10:190866276UPC:9780190866273Book Category:Philosophy, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, Greece, DemocracySize:8.30 x 5.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCTW6A1GRF
Democracy: A Life
Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780190866273ISBN-10:190866276UPC:9780190866273Book Category:Philosophy, History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Ancient, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Ancient & Classical, Greece, DemocracySize:8.30 x 5.60 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCTW6A1GRF
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...
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