Democracy: A Life

by Paul Anthony Cartledge

Book Overview

Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this 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 Western tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190866276
• ISBN13: 9780190866273
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"