Democracy: A Life by Paul Anthony Cartledge

Democracy: A Life

Paul Anthony Cartledge

416 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
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Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy," yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the e...

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