Roberts Athens on Trial

The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2132-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 426 Seiten

Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and Associate Professor of Classical Languages and History at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Accountability in Athenian Government (Wisconsin) and, with Robert Zaller and Richard Greaves, Civilizations of the West (HarperCollins).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Jennifer T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Ch. 1 Introduction 3

Pt. 1 Classical Greece 23

Ch. 2 The Athenian Experiment 25

Ch. 3 The First Attacks on Athenian Democracy 48

Ch. 4 Democracy and the Philosophers 71

Pt. 2 Playing With the Past 93

Ch. 5 Roman Adaptations 97

Ch. 6 Recovering the Greeks 119

Ch. 7 Monarchists and Republicans 137

Ch. 8 The Debate over Athens and Sparta 156

Ch. 9 Athenian Democracy in the Age of Revolutions 175

Ch. 10 A Shift in the Sands 208

Pt. 3 Modern Transformations 227

Ch. 11 The Turning of the Tide 229

Ch. 12 Athenians and Others 256

Ch. 13 Epilogue: The Old and the New 291

Notes 315

Selected Bibliography 379

Index 393

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and Associate Professor of Classical Languages and History at the City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Accountability in Athenian Government (Wisconsin) and, with Robert Zaller and Richard Greaves, Civilizations of the West (HarperCollins).