Author: Ostwald, Martin
Title: From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
Description: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986. Hardcover. Burnt orange cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; burnt orange dj with white lettering; xxii, 663 pp. Contents include: pt. 1. The growth of popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty and the control of government -- Popular sovereignty and social thought -- Popular sovereignty and the control of religion.; pt. 2. Opposition to popular sovereignty. The prelude -- The poplarizations of the 420s -- Popular sovereignty and the intellectual : Alcibiades; pt. 3. Toward the sovereignty of law. The problem of the Patrios Politeia (ancestral constitution) -- The breakdown of popular sovereignty -- The second oligarchical challenge and its failure -- Toward a new order : democracy under the law. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards, block, dj. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

Keywords: European History ; Greek Law ; ;


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