Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story - Couverture rigide

Mitchell, Thomas N.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300215037 ISBN 13 : 9780300215038

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2015

Synopsis

A history of the world’s first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and remarkable story of how a radical new political order was born out of the revolutionary movements that swept through the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., how it took firm hold and evolved over the next two hundred years, and how it was eventually undone by the invading Macedonian conquerors, a superior military power.
 
Mitchell’s superb history addresses the most crucial issues surrounding this first paradigm of democratic governance, including what initially inspired the political beliefs underpinning it, the ways the system succeeded and failed, how it enabled both an empire and a cultural revolution that transformed the world of arts and philosophy, and the nature of the Achilles heel that hastened the demise of Athenian democracy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Thomas N. Mitchell is professor and former provost and president of Trinity College Dublin and chair of its School of Classics. He lives in Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300215037
• ISBN 13: 9780300215038
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible