The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy : A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations PDF
Edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, Peter Wagner
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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
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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:29/04/2013
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- ISBN:9781118561607
