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Democracy: A Life

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Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today — and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece?

Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, looking at its many different manifestations and showing how it has changed over its long life, from ancient times right through to the present. For instance, how did the 'people power' of the Athenians emerge in the first place? Once it had emerged, what enabled it to survive? And how did the Athenian version of democracy differ from the many other forms that developed among the myriad cities of the Greek world?

Paul Cartledge answers all these questions and more, following the development of ancient political thinking about democracy from the sixth century BC onwards, not least the many arguments that were advanced against it over the centuries. As Cartledge shows, after a golden age in the fourth century BC, there was a long, slow degradation of the original Greek conception and practice of democracy, from the Hellenistic era, through late Republican and early Imperial Rome, down to early Byzantium in the sixth century CE.

For many centuries after that, from late Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, democracy was effectively eclipsed by other forms of government, in both theory and practice. But as we know, this was by no means the end of the story. For democracy was eventually to enjoy a re-florescence, over two thousand years after its first flowering in the ancient world: initially revived in seventeenth-century England, it was to undergo a further renaissance in the revolutionary climate of late-eighteenth-century North America and France — and has been constantly reconstituted and reinvented ever since.

Συγγραφέας: Cartledge Paul
Εκδότης: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 416
ISBN: 9780198815136
Εξώφυλλο: Μαλακό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2018

Preface and Acknowledgements

Timeline
Prologue: Lost in Translation?
ACT I
1: Sources, Ancient and Modern
2: The Emergence of the Polis, Politics, and the Political
ACT II
3: The Emergence of Greek Democracy I: Archaic Greece
4: The Emergence of Greek Democracy II: Athens 508/7
5: The Emergence of Greek Democracy III: Athens 507-451/0
6: Greek Democratic Theory?
7: Athenian Democracy in Practice c. 450-335
8: Athenian Democracy: Culture and Society c. 450-335
9: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis I: The Fifth Century
10: Athenian Democracy in Court: The Trials of Demos, Socrates, and Ctesiphon
ACT III
11: Greek Democracy in Credit and Crisis II: The Golden Age of Greek Democracy (c. 375-350) and Its Critics
12: Athenian Democracy at Work in the 'Age of Lycurgus'
13: The Strange Death of Classical Greek Democracy: A Retrospect
ACT IV
14: Hellenistic Democracy? Democracy in Deficit c. 323-86 BCE
15: The Roman Republic: A sort of Democracy?
16: Democracy Denied: The Roman and Early Byzantine Empires
17: Democracy Eclipsed: Late Antiquity, the European Middle Ages, and the Renaissance
ACT V
18: Democracy Revived: England in the Seventeenth Century and France in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
19: Democracy Reinvented: The United States in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries and Tocqueville's America
20: Democracy Tamed: Nineteenth-Century Great Britain
Epilogue: Democracy Now: Retrospect and Prospects
Afterword
Notes and References
Bibliography and Further Reading

Index

Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics, where he taught from 1979 to 2014. His undergraduate and doctoral qualifications were obtained at Oxford, where he completed a dissertation on the archaeology and history of early Sparta under the supervision of Professor Sir John Boardman. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of well over a score of books, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient GreeceThe Spartans: An Epic HistoryAlexander the Great: The Hunt for a New PastThermopylae: The Battle that Changed the World; and Democracy: A Life. He co-edits a monograph series, sits on the editorial boards of three learned journals, and serves as consultant in ancient history to publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and an Honorary Citizen of Sparta, Greece, and holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honour awarded by the President of the Hellenic Republic.

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