04906nam 2200781 a 450 991082827660332120200520144314.01-118-56167-81-118-56176-71-299-44889-51-118-56160-0(CKB)2550000001018559(EBL)1162068(OCoLC)836403061(SSID)ssj0000856200(PQKBManifestationID)11440455(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000856200(PQKBWorkID)10807529(PQKB)11143983(MiAaPQ)EBC1162068(Au-PeEL)EBL1162068(CaPaEBR)ebr10683254(CaONFJC)MIL476139(PPN)24436317X(EXLCZ)99255000000101855920121113d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter WagnerChichester, West Sussex, U.K. Wiley-Blackwell20131 online resource (412 p.)Ancient world : comparative historiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4443-5106-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner -- Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective -- Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations / Johann P. Arnason -- Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective / Peter Wagner -- Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig -- Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli -- Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein -- Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis -- Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot -- Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner. 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 -Ancient world--comparative histories.DemocracyGreeceHistoryTo 1500City-statesGreeceHistoryTo 1500Social changeGreeceHistoryTo 1500CitizenshipGreeceHistoryTo 1500Politics and cultureGreeceHistoryTo 1500ArtsPolitical aspectsGreeceHistoryTo 1500CivilizationGreek influencesGreecePolitics and governmentTo 146 B.CGreeceSocial conditionsTo 146 B.CDemocracyHistoryCity-statesHistorySocial changeHistoryCitizenshipHistoryPolitics and cultureHistoryArtsPolitical aspectsHistoryCivilizationGreek influences.320.938/5Árnason Jóhann Páll1940-481951Raaflaub Kurt A154102Wagner Peter1956-541765MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828276603321The Greek polis and the invention of democracy1991665UNINA