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Zusatztext As a collection, [the essays] effectively demonstrate the plurality of approaches that currently fall under the umbrella of “cultural history,” and... show a laudable self-awareness of the evidentiary and methodological obstacles that make studying the ancient experience of democratic association at once so challenging and so rewarding. Informationen zum Autor Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, UK, and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, new edition 2002), Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005), Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), and Democracy: A Life (2016). Carol Atack is a postdoctoral Research Associate on the Anachronism and Antiquity project and a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK. She is an Associate Editor of Polis: the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought , and has published several articles and chapters on aspects of Greek political thought. Eugenio Biagini is Professor of History at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, UK. A historian of liberalism and democracy, he has written on British, Irish and Italian history since 1789. His publications include British Democracy and Irish nationalism 1876-1906 (2007), The Shaping of Modern Ireland (2016, edited with Daniel Mulhall), Currents of Radicalism. Popular Radicalism, Organized Labour and Party Politics in Britain, 1850-1914 , (1991, edited with A. J. Reid), and Citizenship and Community. Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles 1865-1931 , (1996). Klappentext This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own. The origins of democracy can be traced in a general way to the earliest civilizations, beginning with the early urban societies of the Middle East, and can be seen in cities and communities across the Mediterranean world and Asia. In classical Athens, male citizens enjoyed full participation in the political life of the city and a flourishing democratic culture, as explored in detail in this volume. In other times and places democratic features were absent from the formal structures of regimes, but could still be found in the participatory structures of local social institutions. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: sovereignty; liberty and the rule of law; the "common good"; economic and social democracy; religion and the principles of political obligation; citizenship and gender; ethnicity, race, and nationalism; democratic crises, revolutions, and civil resistance; international relations; and beyond the polis. These ten different approaches to democracy in Antiquity add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject. Vorwort A wide-ranging overview of the cultural history of democracy in antiquity. Zusammenfassung This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own.The origins of democracy can be traced in a general way to the earliest civilizations, beginning with the early urban societies of the Middle East, and can be seen in cities and communities across the Mediterranean world and Asia. In classical Athens, male citizens enjoyed full participation in the political life of the city and a flourishing dem...
