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Author Raaflaub, Kurt A.

Title Origins of democracy in ancient Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace ; with chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 242 pages).
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Series Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and indexes.
Contents Introduction / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- "People's power" and egalitarian trends in archaic Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert W. Wallace -- Revolutions and a new order in solonian Athens and archaic Greece / Robert W. Wallace -- "I besieged that man" : democracy's revolutionary start / Josiah Ober -- The breakthrough of dēmokratia in mid-fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Democracy, origins of : contribution to a debate / Paul Cartledge -- Power to the people / Cynthia Farrar.
Summary The contributors to this text present a debate about the origins of Athenian democracy. The result is a stimulating critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing topic.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Democracy -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
Democracy.
Greece.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
Chronological Term To 146 B.C
Subject Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Politics and government.
Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Greece -- Athens.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Ober, Josiah.
Wallace, Robert W., 1950-
Other Form: Print version: Origins of democracy in ancient Greece Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. 0520245628 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2006026246
ISBN 9780520932173 ebook
052093217X
0520245628 cloth alkaline paper
9780520245624 cloth alkaline paper
1281752428
9781281752420
9781429440097
1429440090