06756cam a2200829Ia 4500 ocn836403061 OCoLC 20171107074751.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 130406s2013 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781118561768 (electronic bk.) 1118561767 (electronic bk.) 9781118561607 1118561600 9781444351064 1444351060 AU@ 000051239231 DEBBG BV041912877 DEBBG BV043395714 DEBSZ 43137399X NZ1 15340491 (OCoLC)836403061 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCQ OCLCO YDXCP IDEBK DG1 CUS CUI NOC OCLCO OCLCF OCLCA PUL OCLCA OCLCQ OCL OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCO DEBBG OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ e-gr--- MAIN JC75.D36 G73 2013 320.938/5 320.9385 909 The Greek Polis and the invention of democracy : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub and Peter Wagner. [electronic resource] Chicester : Wiley, 2013. 1 online resource (x, 594 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Ancient World: Comparative Histories PART III: Changing a Way of Life: Democracy's Impact on Polis Society. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover; The Ancient World: Comparative Histories; Title page; Copyright page; Series Editor's Preface; The Ancient World: Comparative Histories; Contributors; Introduction; Acknowledgments; PART I: The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective; 1 Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye:; Intercivilizational Connections; Aspects of the Polis; Cultural Extensions of the Political; Between Monarchy and Community; The Transformation of the Political: with Meier against Meier; Politics and the Political; Religion and the Political; Greece in the Axial World; 2 Transformations of Democracy. Ancient Athens and Our Present: From Evolution Towards DiscontinuityA Democratic Revolution Around 1800?; "Democracy" After the Democratic Revolution; Democratic Thought at the Time of "Democratization"; Action and Representation: Size and Self-understanding of Ancient and Modern Democracy; The Instituting and the Instituted: Stability and Change in Democracy; Exclusion and Inclusion: The Relation Between Political Citizenship and Economic Involvement; Conclusion: the Greeks and Us; PART II: Ways of Polis-making: Grasping the Novelty of the Political; 3 To Act with Good Advice. The "Political Sphere," the Risk of Acting, and TragedyOrigin and Political Function of Tragedy; Acting Too Quickly; Ill-advised Action: Creon and Oedipus; The Riddle and the Oracle; Antigone and Orestes: Personal Autonomy, the Climax of Aboulia, and the Recognition of Human Fallibility; No Certainty Anywhere: The Fragility of euboulia; Abbreviation; 4 Democracy and Dissent: the Case of Comedy; Freedom of the Ancients and Freedom of the Moderns; Comedy and the "Company of Athenian Critics" of Democracy; Criticism of Democracy on Stage: from Cratinus to Aristophanes. A Closer Look at AristophanesConclusion; Abbreviations; 5 Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece; I; II; III; Abbreviations; 6 Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens; Rhetoric and Politics in Democratic Athens(Fifth to Fourth Century BCE); Rhetoric of Crisis; Rhetoric of Democratic Characterization; Literary Rhetoric and New Perspectives on Politics; Conclusion; 7 Law and Democracy in Classical Athens; Amateurism and the Athenian Legal System; The Athenian Popular Courts and Public Order; 8 Democracy and Political Philosophy. Solonian Legislation, Political Thinking, and Institutional EvolutionThe "Sophists," especially Protagoras; Democratic "Accounts" and Socratic Self-examination10; Democracy, Philosophy, Eudaimonism; Perfecting Nature, Living with Self-respect: Lysias on the Athenian Past; The Political Eudaimonism of Plato and Aristotle; Conclusion: the Vital Points of Contention; Acknowledgment; 9 Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens; Athenian History and Athenian Inscribing to 480 BCE; Athens and Athenian Inscribing from 480 to 403; Athens in the Fourth Century; Abbreviations. The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks' path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis. Print version record. To 1500 fast Civilization Greek influences. Democracy Greece History To 1500. Arts Political aspects Greece History To 1500. Citizenship Greece History To 1500. City-states Greece History To 1500. Civilization Greek influences. Democracy Greece History To 1500. Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C. Greece Social conditions To 146 B.C. Politics and culture Greece History To 1500. Social change Greece History To 1500. Civilization Greek influences. fast (OCoLC)fst00862910 Democracy. fast (OCoLC)fst00890077 Politics and government fast (OCoLC)fst01919741 Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C. Greece History To 146 B.C. Greece. fast (OCoLC)fst01208380 Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Arnason, Johann P. Raaflaub, Kurt A. Wagner, Peter, 1956 September 18- Print version: Arnason, Johann P. Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy : A Politico-Cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations. Chicester : Wiley, ©2013 9781444351064 Ancient world--comparative histories. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118561768 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 206633 206633