Ebook: Democracy : a life
Author: Cartledge Paul
- Tags: Democracy, Greece, History, To 1500, Greece, Politics and government, To 146 B.C, Democracy, History, HISTORY, Ancient, Greece, Democracy, Politics and government, Greece, POLITICAL SCIENCE, General
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: Greece
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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"Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker--from Plato and Aristotle onwards--were ambivalent or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern democratic society but the entire Read more...
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The 2,500 year story of democracy, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century Read more...
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