Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Subtitle: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 9, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780691028644
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; History: World; History; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; History & Theory - General; Sociology - Social Theory; Archaeology and Ancient History; Classics; History / Ancient / Greece; Political Science and International Relations
First sentence: The form of political organization that evolved in the polis of Athens over the course of the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries B.C. is one of the best known, most frequently evoked, but least well-understood legacies of the Greco-Roman world.