Tag: Athenian

Free Download Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire by Sophie Mills
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0198150636 | 304 Pages | PDF | 8.7 MB
This book traces the development of the Theseus myth and its importance for Athens.

Free Download S. Sara Monoson, "Plato’s Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy"
English | 2013 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 0691158584, 0691043663 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato’s suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing.

Free Download C.W. Marshall, George Kovacs, "No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy"
English | 2013 | pages: 370 | ASIN: B00G99NDN2 | EPUB | 5,8 mb
No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to students. By including discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy. The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy, using the most up-to-date texts and tools.

Free Download Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages by The Great Courses, Professor Robert Garland University College London
English | 2018 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B07CZ3BPTV | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 12 hours and 40 minutes + PDF | 184 Mb
Roughly 2,500 years ago, the Athenian people established a radical democracy in which power derived from the votes of everyday citizens. At a time when local governments ranged from oligarchy to tyranny, the elite classes of Athens gradually ceded power to the inexperienced masses, whose votes served as referendums for everything from taxation to war to welfare. The sequence of events that led to this development is astonishing, and the society that flourished under Athenian democracy is one of the greatest – even if greatly flawed – achievements in world history.
Today, when the foundations of our own democracy are under greater and greater scrutiny, the Athenian experiment in citizen rule offers a powerful object lesson in national politics. How did the Athenian system of democracy work? What were its strengths and weaknesses? And how does it compare to democracy in our world today? Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages answers these questions and more with 24 captivating lectures. Professor Robert Garland of Colgate University takes us back to ancient Greece and unpacks the development and workings of Athenian democracy. You’ll witness the story of history through the lens of Athenian government, going inside the assemblies and courts to find out how democracy worked – and where it came up short.