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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Athenian democracy"”.
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
This dissertation explores Xenophon’s view of Athenian political society and governance during the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Xenophon has often been portrayed in scholarship as an uncritical conduit of traditional conservative, aristocratic thought: hostile to democracy and the Athenian demos and in …
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The Nature of Authentic Governance: A Treatise on Democratic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Democracy
<p>Democracy is a form of governance that allows for the flourishing of human potentiality. Unfortunately, democracy has become less of a means of governance and more of a rhetorical device to secure the consent of the people to be ruled by the elite few. Thus the current study seeks to disrupt …
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Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Archaic and Classical Athens
… in Athens. Though egalitarian on its face, the Athenian democracy was still extremely exclusive, and immigrant communities residing in Athens responded by preserving traditions and promoting their citizenship in other poleis within cemeteries.</p>
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Democracy in the Peloponnese, c.550–146 BCE
… an outline of the general features of Greek democracy, followed by a survey of the local specificities that may have had a bearing on how democratic institutions actually worked in the context of the Peloponnese. I also list the main relevant sources for a study of Peloponnesian democracy and …
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Discours de la corruption dans la Grèce classique
… with politics and especially with the Athenian democracy. Against this political corruption, historiography is constituted as an open space, free of the perils that the city is facing: the historian, like the philosopher and the physician, seeks to position himself as the true …
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Concepts of (Un)dressing in Greek Drama
In recent years, dramatic props and costumes have become the focus of a renewed scholarly interest in the performance aspects of Greek drama. This has entailed, in particular, a shift away from enquiries into the ostensible realia of Greek staging to explorations of their complex constructions, …