Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People by Josiah Ober

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People

Josiah Ober

408 pages • first pub 1989 (view editions)

nonfiction classics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politic...

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