Title: Silence and democracy
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: History, Politics and government, Political participation, Democracy, Thucydides, Greece, history, Athens (greece), politics and government, Land reform, Agricultural laborers, political activity
Places: Athens, Greece, Athens (Greece)
People: Thucydides
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: JC75.D36 Z86 2008