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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Landauer, Matthew (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Political consultants > Greece.
Government accountability > Greece.
Democracy > Greece.
Despotism > Greece.
Comparative government.
Democracy.
Despotism.
Government accountability.
Political consultants.
Politics and government.
Greece.
To 146 B.C.
Physical Description:viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.