Civic obligation and individual liberty in ancient Athens / Peter Liddel.
"Peter Liddel gives a new angle to the question of the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens by examining the obligations of the citizen. His primary concern is to elucidate how the considerable obligations of the citizen to the city and to the society that surrounded him (known here as civ...
| Uniform Title: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Physical Description: | x, 443 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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"Peter Liddel gives a new angle to the question of the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens by examining the obligations of the citizen. His primary concern is to elucidate how the considerable obligations of the citizen to the city and to the society that surrounded him (known here as civic obligations) were reconciled with ideas about individual liberty, and how this reconciliation was negotiated, performed, and presented in the Athenian law-courts, assembly, and through the inscriptional mode of publication. Liddel assesses the extent to which the Rawlsian model of liberty might be used to elucidate the kind of liberty that existed in the ancient Greek city."--Jacket. |
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| Call Number: | JC75.C5 L53 2007 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-402) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 019922658X 9780199226580 |