Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens write by Arlene W. Saxonhouse. This book was released on 2005-12-19. Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form of free speech that was practised by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarchy, awe, reverence and shame. It was thus an essential ingredient of the egalitarianism of that regime. That freedom was challenged by the consequences of the rejection of shame (aidos) which had served as a cohesive force within the polity. Through readings of Socrates's trial, Greek tragedy and comedy, Thucydides's History, and Plato's Protagoras this volume explores the paradoxical connections between free speech, democracy, shame, and Socratic philosophy and Thucydidean history as practices of uncovering.
Free Speech in Classical Antiquity
Free Speech in Classical Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Free Speech in Classical Antiquity write by Ineke Sluiter. This book was released on 2017-07-31. Free Speech in Classical Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of “Free Speech” in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as “freedom of speech,” “self-expression,” and “censorship,” in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Among the many questions addressed are: what was the precise lexicographical valence of the ancient terms we routinely translate as "Freedom of Speech," e.g., Parrhesia in Greece, Licentia in Rome? What relationship do such terms have with concepts such as isêgoria, dêmokratia and eleutheria; or libertas, res publica and imperium? What does ancient theorizing about free speech tell us about contemporary relationships between power and speech? What are the philosophical foundations and ideological underpinnings of free speech in specific historical contexts?
Democracy and Goodness
Democracy and Goodness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Goodness write by John R. Wallach. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Democracy and Goodness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.
Aspects of Athenian Democracy
Aspects of Athenian Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspects of Athenian Democracy write by Robert J. Bonner. This book was released on 2022-05-27. Aspects of Athenian Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1933.
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens write by Josiah Ober. This book was released on 2009-10-01. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and nonelite citizens. After a preliminary survey of the development of the Athenian "constitution," he focuses on the role of political and legal rhetoric. As jurymen and Assemblymen, the citizen masses of Athens retained important powers, and elite Athenian politicians and litigants needed to address these large bodies of ordinary citizens in terms understandable and acceptable to the audience. This book probes the social strategies behind the rhetorical tactics employed by elite speakers. A close reading of the speeches exposes both egalitarian and elitist elements in Athenian popular ideology. Ober demonstrates that the vocabulary of public speech constituted a democratic discourse that allowed the Athenians to resolve contradictions between the ideal of political equality and the reality of social inequality. His radical reevaluation of leadership and political power in classical Athens restores key elements of the social and ideological context of the first western democracy.
