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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liddel, Peter P. (Peter Philip), 1977-
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Citizenship > Greece > Athens > History.
Liberty > History.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Citizenship.
Liberty.
Politics and government.
Greece.
Greece > Athens.
Athen.
To 146 B.C.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:x, 443 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Rawls on liberty, duty, and obligation
  • Ancient texts and ancient contexts
  • Negotiation of obligations
  • Performance and presentation of obligations.