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.
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 1989-01-01. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds - 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 the Greek and Roman Worlds write by Richard Evans. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober’s seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected by the diversity of the papers collected here, which take their cue and starting point from the argument that, in Ober’s words (1989, 338): ‘Rhetorical communication between masses and elites... was a primary means by which the strategic ends of social stability and political order were achieved.’ However, the contributors to the volume have also sought to build further on such conclusions and to offer new perceptions about a spread of issues affecting mass and elite interaction in a far wider number of locations around the ancient Mediterranean over a much longer chronological span. Thus the conclusions here suggest that once the concept of mass and elite was established in the minds of Greeks and later Romans it became a universal component of political life and from there was easily transferred to economic activity or religion. In casting the net beyond the confines of Athens (although the city is also represented here) to – amongst others – Syracuse, the cities of Asia Minor, Pompeii and Rome, and to literary and philosophical discourse, in each instance that interplay between the wider body of the community and the hierarchically privileged can be shown to have governed and directed the thoughts and actions of the participants.
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Political Dissent 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 Political Dissent in Democratic Athens write by Josiah Ober. This book was released on 2001-12-02. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since it was no longer self-evident that "better men" meant "better government," critics of democracy sought new arguments to explain the relationship among politics, ethics, and morality.
Ideology of Democratic Athens
Ideology of 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 Ideology of Democratic Athens write by Matteo Barbato. This book was released on 2020-05-28. Ideology of Democratic Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
