Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy
Subtitle: A Politico-Cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781118561607
Subjects: Democracy; Social change; Citizenship; Politics and culture; Art and state; Greece, civilization; Greece, politics and government; Greece, social conditions
Description: "The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks' path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries."--Publisher's website.