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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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
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2019.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |