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Author Barbato, Matteo, author.

Title Ideology of democratic Athens: institutions, orators and the mythical past / Matteo Barbato.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations.
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Series New approaches to Ancient Greek institutional history
New approaches to Ancient Greek institutional history.
Summary 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.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Myth and Athenian democracy -- 3. The discursive parameters of Athenian democratic institutions -- 4. Exclusiveness and eugeneia in the myth of autochthony -- 5. Between charis and philanthrōpia: the Heraclidae -- 6. Fading shades of hybris: the Attic Amazonomachy -- 7. Combining hybris and philanthrōpia: the myth of Adrastus -- 8. Conclusions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and indexes.
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Subject Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
Democracy.
Greece -- Athens.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500 -- Case studies.
Oratory, Ancient.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Oratory, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Greece.
Greece -- Politics and government.
Politics and government.
Democracy -- Greece.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: 1474466427 9781474466424 (OCoLC)1157933084
ISBN 9781474484510 (electronic book)
1474484514 (electronic book)
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