Dangerous counsel : accountability and advice in ancient Greece / Matthew Landauer.

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an important structural feature of Athenian democracy. Li...

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Main Author: Landauer, Matthew (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Physical Description:viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Accountability and unaccountability in Athenian democracy -- The tyrant : unaccountability's second face -- The accountable adviser in Herodotus' Histories -- Responsibility and accountability in Thucydides' Mytilenean debate -- Parrhēsia across politeiai -- Demagoguery and the limits of expert advice in Plato's Gorgias -- Conclusion. 
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