Democracy : a life / Paul Cartledge.

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"Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker--from Plato and Aristotle onwards--were ambivalent or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cartledge, Paul (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Democracy > Greece > History > To 1500.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Democracy > History.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Democracy.
Politics and government.
Greece.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxvi, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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