{"product_id":"demagogues-power-and-friendship-in-classical-athens","title":"Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. \u003ci\u003eDemagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens\u003c\/i\u003e examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians’ friendship-based approaches to coalition-building. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComedies of Aristophanes (particularly\u003ci\u003e Knights)\u003c\/i\u003e, tragedies of Euripides (particularly \u003ci\u003eIphigenia in Aulis\u003c\/i\u003e), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly \u003ci\u003eAnabasis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCyropaedia\u003c\/i\u003e) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes’ \u003ci\u003eKnights\u003c\/i\u003e between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out – as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262062547288,"sku":"9781350214484","price":102.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350214484_132fa07c-780d-403d-89e8-7a8c7a622722.jpg?v=1777566621","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/demagogues-power-and-friendship-in-classical-athens","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}