Austerity & Democracy in Athens 9783319641287, 9783319641270

Democracy in Classical Athens 9781474286374, 9781474286367, 9781474286381, 1474286372

"For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentar

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Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens 9780520945487

Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens

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Rural Athens Under the Democracy 0812237749, 9780812237740

Much of the evidence--literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial--from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subj

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Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens 9781501711374

His book can profitably be read by anyone concerned with the issues at the heart of classical and contemporary democracy

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Rural Athens Under the Democracy 9780812202373

The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the

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Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens 9780292772045

In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic fes

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Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens 9780190083595, 2020017402, 9780190083571

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Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens 0190083573, 9780190083571

In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the pass

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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture: Femininity, Masculinity & Recession In Film & Television 9781350986565, 9781786730923

From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precar

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The politics of participation: From Athens to e-democracy 9781847792303

Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens ar

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