Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgment -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Athenian Democracy and the History of Ideologies -- CHAPTER 2. Models and Paradigms in Ancient History -- CHAPTER 3. Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens -- CHAPTER 4. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy -- CHAPTER 5. The Rules of War in Classical Greece -- CHAPTER 6. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense -- CHAPTER 7. Power and Oratory in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidia -- CHAPTER 8. The Nature of Athenian Democracy -- CHAPTER 9. The Athenians and Their Democracy -- CHAPTER 10. How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens -- CHAPTER 11. The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and die Athenian Social Contract -- Bibliography -- Index
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Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Models and Paradigms in Ancient History -- Chapter 3: Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens -- Chapter 4: The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy -- Chapter 5: The Rules of War in Classical Greece -- Chapter 6: Thucydides, Pericles, and the Strategy of Defense -- Chapter 7: Power and Oratory in Democratic Athens: Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias -- Chapter 8: The Nature of Athenian Democracy -- Chapter 9: The Athenians and Their Democracy -- Chapter 10: How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Athens -- Chapter 11: The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and die Athenian Social Contract -- Bibliography -- Index.
Where did "democracy" come from, and what is its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper- and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history
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