Silence and democracy
Subtitle: Athenian politics in Thucydides' history
By: John Zumbrunnen.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780271033570
Subjects: Thucydides; Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500; Political participation -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500; Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
Description: "The role of elites vis-a-vis the mass public in the construction and successful functioning of democracy has long been of central interest to political theorists. In Silence and Democracy, John Zumbrunnen explores this theme in Thucydides' famous history of the Peloponnesian War as a way of focusing our thoughts about this relationship in our own modern democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: Athenian stasis and the quiet of the mob; title: The silence of hoi Athenaioi : two modes of Athenian action in the history; title: Deliberative action and Athenian "character"; title: The silence of the demos and the challenges of political judgment : on the "decline" of Athenian politics; title: Justice and empire : Athenian silence and the representation of Athens abroad; title: Athenian silence and the fate of Plataea.