Ober, Josiah
The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory
Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, ix,212 pp. Minor rubbing, some light side-page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper
¶ Contents: Introduction: Athenian Democracy & the History of Ideologies; Models & Paradigms in Ancient History; Public Speech & the Power of the People in Democratic Athens; The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, & the Origins of Democracy; The Rules of War in Classical Greece; Thucydides, Pericles & the Strategy of Defense; Power & Oratory in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, 'Against Meidias'; The Nature of Athenian Democracy; The Athenians & Their Democracy; How to Criticize Democracy in Late 5th- and 4th-Century Athens; The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls & the Athenian Social Contract.

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Keywords: Political Philosophy, Democratic Athens, Athenian Democracy, Ancient History, Classical Philology, Greece Greek, , ,