The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 BCE [4 ed.] 9780393938876

Performing Violence in Fourth-century BCE Athens: Court, Curse, and Comedy (MythosEikonPoiesis): Court, Curse, and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens 3110245590, 9783110245592

This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire f

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Rural Athens Under the Democracy 9780812202373

The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the

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Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens 9781501711374

His book can profitably be read by anyone concerned with the issues at the heart of classical and contemporary democracy

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Rural Athens Under the Democracy 0812237749, 9780812237740

Much of the evidence--literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial--from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subj

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The politics of participation: From Athens to e-democracy 9781847792303

Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens ar

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Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC) 2 Volumes 1108612423, 9781108612425

Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities

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The Regime of Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens, 317–307 BCE: A Philosopher in Politics 9004178880, 9789004178885

Erudite and urbane, a scion of the Peripatos, Demetrius of Phalerum dominated Athenian political life for a decade (317-

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Athens after the peloponnesian war : class, faction and policy 403-386 b.c. 9781315778846, 131577884X

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Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens 9780520945487

Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens

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Crossing the Threshold of Hope

A great international bestseller, the book in which, on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an access

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