The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. :
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2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.