ancient
ancient greek
appearance
archaic
book
Category=JPHV
Category=NHC
Category=NHD
Category=NHTB
chapters
comprised
continuing
democracy
earliest
engage
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
greatest
greeks
inventions
invites
period
phenomenon
presenting
questions
readers
roots
six
themselves
Product details
- ISBN 9780631233930
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book invites readers to join in a fresh and extensive investigation of one of Ancient Greece's greatest inventions: democratic government.
- Provides an accessible, up-to-date survey of vital issues in Greek democracy.
- Covers democracy’s origins, growth and essential nature.
- Raises questions of continuing interest.
- Combines ancient texts in translation and recent scholarly articles.
- Invites the reader into a process of historical investigation.
- Contains maps, a glossary and an index.
Eric W. Robinson is Associate Professor of History and the Classics at Harvard University, where he has received the Roslyn Abramson Award for excellence in teaching. He is the author of The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens (1997). He has also co-edited with Vanessa Gorman Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham (2002).
