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Prescribed Texts (7 items)
The Oresteia - Aeschylus, 1979
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The Athenian constitution - Aristotle, 2002
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The old oligarch: Pseudo-Xenophon's Constitution of the Athenians - Xenophon:
introduction, translation and commentary by Robin Osborne, c2004
Book | Suggested for Student Purchase
The Athenian democracy in the age of Demosthenes: structure, principles, and ideology Mogens Herman Hansen, 1999
Book | Suggested for Student Purchase
Available in digitised form or in books required for Classical Civilisation 2A:
Aristotle Politics 1274b32-1275b21, 1277b33-1278b5, 1292b22-1293a34, and
1317a40-1318a10.
Plato Republic 8.555b-561e.
Thucydides 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration) and 3.36-50 (the Mytilenian Debate)
Against Meidias (Oration 21) - Demosthenes, 1990
Book
A history of my times (Hellenica) - Xenophon: translated [from the Greek] by Rex Warner ;
with an introduction and notes by George Cawkwell, 1979
Book | See: 1.6-7 (the Arginusai Trial).
Recommended Preliminary Reading (9 items)
The Athenian democracy in the age of Demosthenes: structure, principles, and ideology -
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Mogens Herman Hansen, 1999
Book | We will use this as a textbook, so it is a good idea to read as much of it as
possible beforehand.
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | This is a recent collection of introductory articles to many aspects of ancient
political thought, with a section devoted to democracy.
Greek political thought - Ryan K. Balot, 2006
Book | Essential
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book
Mass and elite in democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people Josiah Ober, 1990
Book
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
Dawson Books, c1998
Book
Athenian democracy: modern mythmakers and ancient theorists - Arlene W. Saxonhouse,
c1996
Book
The classical Athenian democracy - D. L. Stockton, 1990
Book
Why Socrates died: dispelling the myths - Robin Waterfield, 2009
Book
General reading (49 items)
Useful for the entire course.
Athenian democracy (31 items)
Debating the Athenian cultural revolution: art, literature, philosophy, and politics 430-380
BC - Robin Osborne, 2007
Book | See: pp. 27-43.
Greek political thought - Ryan K. Balot, 2006
Book | Essential | This is a recent collection of introductory articles on many aspects of
ancient political thought and includes a section on democracy.
Democracy, empire, and the arts in fifth-century Athens - 1998
Book
Athenian identity and civic ideology - Alan L. Boegehold, Adele C. Scafuro, c1994
Book
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The quiet Athenian - L. B. Carter, 1986
Book
The bad citizen in classical Athens - Matthew Robert Christ, 2006
Book
Greek popular morality in the time of Plato and Aristotle - K. J. Dover, c1974
Book
Imperialism in the ancient world: the Cambridge University research seminar in ancient
history - Peter Garnsey, C. R. Whittaker, 1978
Book | See: Finley, M.I. , ‘The Fifth-century Athenian empire: a balance sheet’.
Economy and society in Ancient Greece - M. I. Finley, 1981
Book | See: Finley, M.I. , ‘The Fifth-century Athenian empire: a balance sheet’.
Social values in classical Athens - N. R. E. Fisher, 1976
Book
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, 1994
Book | See: pp. 99-118.
The Athenian Ecclesia II: a collection of articles 1983-1989 - Mogens Herman Hansen, 1989
Book | See: pp. 207-226.
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, 1994
Book | See: pp. 25-37.
The Pnyx in the history of Athens: proceedings of an international colloquium organized by
the Finnish Institute at Athens, 7-9 October, 1994 - Björn Forsén, Greg Stanton, 1996
Book | See: pp. 23-33.
Classica et mediaevalia - 1938Journal | See: Hansen, M.H. (1997) ‘One hundred and sixty theses about Athenian
democracy’ 48: 204-265.
Colloque international Démocratie athénienne et culture: organisé par l'Académie
d'Athènes en coopération avec l'UNESCO - Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Michel B.
Sakellariou, 1996
Book | See: pp. 137-170.
Born of the earth: myth and politics in Athens - Nicole Loraux, 2000
Book
The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates - Mark Henderson Munn, c2000
Book
Mass and elite in democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people Josiah Ober, 1990
Book | Essential
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The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | Essential
The Athenian empire - P. J. Rhodes, Classical Association (Great Britain), 1985
Book
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
c1998
Book | Essential
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, 1994
Book
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | Essential
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles - Loren J. Samons II, 2007
Book
Athenian democracy: modern mythmakers and ancient theorists - Arlene W. Saxonhouse,
c1996
Book | Essential
Debating the Athenian cultural revolution: art, literature, philosophy, and politics 430-380
BC - Robin Osborne, 2007
Book | See: pp. 91-115.
Democracy and participation in Athens - R. K. Sinclair, 1988
Book
Athenian democratic origins: and other essays - G. E. M. De Ste. Croix, David Harvey,
Robert Parker, Peter Thonemann, Oxford University Press, 2004
Book
Debating the Athenian cultural revolution: art, literature, philosophy, and politics 430-380
BC - Robin Osborne, 2007
Book | See: Taylor, C. - ‘A New Political World’ pp. 72-90. [Especially on how the level of
participation in politics changed over time in Athens]
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Thomas, R. - ‘Law and the Lawgiver in the Athenian Democracy’ pp.
119-134.
Democracy ancient and modern (14 items)
Democracy and its critics - Robert Alan Dahl, c1989
Book
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A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Chapter 9, P. Liddell 'Democracy Ancient and Modern'.
On democracy - Robert Alan Dahl, 2000, c1998
Book
Citizenship - Keith Faulks, 2000
Book
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Hansen, M.H. - ‘The 2500th Anniversary of Cleisthenes' Reforms and the
Tradition of Athenian Democracy’ pp. 25-38.
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Hansen, M.H. - ‘The Ancient Athenian and the Modern Liberal View of
Liberty as a Democratic Ideal’ pp. 91-104.
Thucydides’ Description of Democracy (2.37.1) and the EU-Convention of 2003 | Hansen |
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies - 2008
Webpage
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Hedrick, C.W. jr. - ‘Writing, Reading, and Democracy’ pp. 157-174.
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Manville, P.B. - ‘Ancient Greek Democracy and the Modern
Knowledge-Based Organization: Reflections of the Ideology of Two Revolutions’ pp.
377-399.
The civic conversations of Thucydides and Plato: classical political philosophy and the
limits of democracy - Gerald M. Mara, c2008
Book
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book
The founders and the classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Englightenment - Carl J.
Richard, 1994
Book
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Ruschenbusch, E. - ‘Europe and Democracy’ pp. 189-198.
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What's wrong with democracy?: from Athenian practice to American worship - Loren J.
Samons, 2004
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Democracy in the future (4 items)
The new challenge of direct democracy - Ian Budge, 1996
Book
The Internet and democratic citizenship: theory, practice and policy - Stephen Coleman,
Jay G. Blumler, 2009
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Innovating democracy: democratic theory and practice after the deliberative turn - Robert
E. Goodin, Oxford University Press, 2008
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Democracy and new technology - Iain McLean, 1989
Book
Additional reading for weekly topics (131 items)
You are NOT expected to read all of this, but dip into the topics you find most interesting. I
expect you to pursue at least one of them.
Week 1, Introduction (4 items)
Agon, logos, polis: the Greek achievement and its aftermath Jo
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rnason, Peter Murphy, 2001
Book | See: Meier, C. (2001, in German 1982) The Greeks: the political revolution in
world history, pp 56-71. Reprinted in Rhodes, P.J. (2004) Athenian Democracy, pp 328348, included below.
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | See: Meier, C. (2001, in German 1982) The Greeks: the political revolution in
world history, pp 328- 348. Reprint of above chapter.
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Chapter 3, K.A. Raaflaub 'Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean
Context'
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
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Ober, c1996
Book | Ober, J. - ‘Introduction: Athenian Democracy and the History of Ideologies’ pp.
3-12.
Week 2, The Beginning of Democracy (22 items)
Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems: a reading of the fragments
in light of the researches of new classical archaeology - Joseph A. Almeida, 2003
Book
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Morris, I. - ‘The Strong Principle of Equality and the Archaic Origins of Greek
Democracy’ pp. 19-48.
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | See: Ober, J. - ‘The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: violence, authority, and
the origins of democracy’ pp. 32-52.
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Strauss, B.S. - ‘The Athenian Trireme, School of Democracy’ pp. 313-326.
The Oresteia (4 items)
Aeschylus: the Oresteia - Simon Goldhill, 1992
Book
Oxford readings in Greek tragedy - Erich Segal, c1983
Book | See: Lecbeck, A. - ‘Imagery and Action in the Oresteia’ pp. 73-83.
The logic of tragedy: morals and integrity in Aeschylus' Oresteia - Philip Vellacott, 1984
Book
Oxford readings in Greek tragedy - Erich Segal, c1983
Book | See: Winnington-Ingram, R.P. - ‘Clytemnestra and the Vote of Athena’ .pp
84-103.
Tragedy and democracy (14 items)
Why Athens?: a reappraisal of tragic politics - D. M. Carter, Oxford University Press, 2011
Book
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Ch. 28, J. Gibert 'Greek Drama and Political Thought'
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | Connor, W.R. (1996) ‘Civil Society, Dionysiac Festival, and the Athenian
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Democracy’ pp. 217-226.
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - Froma I. Zeitlin, John J.
Winkler, c1989
Book | See: Goldhill, S. - ‘The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology’ pp. 97-129.
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Goldhill, S. - ‘Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia’ pp.
347-370.
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles - Loren J. Samons II, 2007
Book | See: Henderson, J. - ‘Drama and Democracy’ pp. 179-195.
The political art of Greek tragedy - Christian Meier, 1993
Book
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - Froma I. Zeitlin, John J.
Winkler, c1989
Book | See: Ober, J. and Strauss, B. - ‘Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of
Athenian Democracy’ pp. 237-270.
Tragedy, comedy and the polis: papers from the Greek Drama Conference, Nottingham,
18-20 July 1990 - Alan H. Sommerstein, Greek Drama Conference, c1993
Book | See: Osborne, R. (1993) Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for
Dramatic Festivals at Athens, pp 21-38. Reprinted in Rhodes, P.J. (2004) Athenian
Democracy, pp 207-224, included below.
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | See: Osborne, R. (1993) Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for
Dramatic Festivals at Athens, pp 207-224. Reprint of above chapter.
Greek tragedy - Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, 2008
Book
Nothing to Do with Democracy: Athenian Drama and the Polis - P. J. Rhodes, 2003
Article
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Sourvinou-Inwood, C. - ‘Something to do with Athens: Tragedy and Ritual’
pp. 269- 290.
Theatre and citizenship: the history of a practice - David Wiles, 2011
Book
Week 3, Democracy as one type of constitution (20 items)
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A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Ch. 3, K.A. Raaflaub 'Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context'
Athenian Citizenship: The Descent Group and the Alternatives - John K. Davies, 1978
Article
Democracy, Oligarchy, and the Concept of the "Free Citizen" in Late Fifth-Century Athens Kurt A. Raaflaub, 1983
Article
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Wolin, S. - ‘Transgression, Equality, and Voice’ pp. 63-90.
Aristotle (9 items)
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Chs. 25 and 26: T. Chappell '"Naturalism" in Aristotle's Political Philosophy' and
D.J. Depew 'The Ethics of Aristotle's 'Politics';.
Classica et mediaevalia - Dansk selskab for oldtids- og middelalderforskning, 1938Journal | See: Harvey. F.D. (1965 and 1966) "Two Kinds of Equality" Classica et
Mediaevalia 26, pp. 101-46; 27, 99-100.
A Companion to Aristotle's Politics - Fred Dycus Miller, David Keyt, 1991
Book
Aristotle's Politics: critical essays - Richard Kraut, Steven Skultety, c2005
Book
Nature, justice, and rights in Aristotle's Politics - Fred Dycus Miller, Oxford University Press,
1997
Book
Citizens and statesmen: a study of Aristotle's Politics - Mary P. Nichols, c1992
Book
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | See: Ober, J. - ‘The Polis as a Society: Aristotle, John Rawls, and the Athenian
Social Contract’ pp. 161-187.
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
Dawson Books, c1998
Book | See: Ober, J. - ‘Political Animals, Actual Citizens, and the Best Possible Polis:
Aristotle Politics’ pp. 290-351.
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Aristotle and the Politics - Jean Roberts, Ebooks
Corporation Limited, 2009
Book
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Plato (7 items)
A companion to Plato - Hugh H. Benson, 2006
Book
The Cambridge companion to Plato's Republic - G. R. F. Ferrari, 2007
Book
The Cambridge companion to Plato - Richard Kraut, 1992
Book
The civic conversations of Thucydides and Plato: classical political philosophy and the
limits of democracy - Gerald M. Mara, c2008
Book
An engagement with Plato's Republic: a companion to The republic - Basil Mitchell, J. R.
Lucas, 2003
Book
Plato's democratic entanglements: Athenian politics and the practice of philosophy - Susan
Sara Monoson, c2000
Book
Plato: political philosophy - Malcolm Schofield, 2006
Book | See: Chapter 2 - Schofield, M (2006) Athens, Democracy and Freedom
Week 4, Civic Groups in Athenian Democracy (9 items)
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Boeghold, A. (1996) Resistance to Change in the Law at Athens, pp 203-214
The Athenian democracy in the age of Demosthenes: structure, principles, and ideology Mogens Herman Hansen, 1999
Book
Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens - S. C. Humphreys, 1978
Article
Mass and elite in democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people Josiah Ober, American Council of Learned Societies, 1990
Book
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | See: Part I - Institutions
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles - Loren J. Samons II, 2007
Book | See: Sickinger, J.P. (2007) The Bureaucracy of Democracy and Empire, pp
196-214
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Ps.-Aristotle The Athenian Constitution (3 items)
The composition of Aristotle's Athenaion politeia: observation and explanation - John J.
Keaney, 1992
Book
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
Dawson Books, c1998
Book | See: Ober, J. (1998) The Dialects of Dissent: Criticism as Dialogue, pp 352-374
The Athenian constitution - P. J. Rhodes, Aristotle, 2002
Book | See: Introduction
Week 5 - Democracy and Religion
Week 7 - Democracy and Women (10 items)
Comedy and democracy (10 items)
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Carey, C. (1994) Comic ridicule and democracy, pp 69-84
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Connor, W.R. (1996) Civil society, Dionysic Festival, and the Athenian
Democracy, pp 217-226
The city as comedy: society and representation in Athenian drama - Gregory W. Dobrov,
c1997
Book
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - Froma I. Zeitlin, John J.
Winkler, c1989
Book | See: Goldhill, S. (1990) The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology, pp 97-129
Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis - David M.
Lewis, Robin Osborne, Simon Hornblower, American Council of Learned Societies,
International Conference on "The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy", 1994
Book | See: Goldhill, S. (1994) Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia,
pp 347-370
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles - Loren J. Samons II, 2007
Book | See: Henderson, J. (2007) Drama and Democracy, pp 179-195
Nothing to do with Dionysos?: Athenian drama in its social context - Froma I. Zeitlin, John J.
Winkler, c1989
Book | See: Ober, J. and Strauss, B. (1990) Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse
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of Athenian Democracy, pp 237-270
Tragedy, comedy and the polis: papers from the Greek Drama Conference, Nottingham,
18-20 July 1990 - Alan H. Sommerstein, Greek Drama Conference, c1993
Book | See: Osborne, R. (1993) Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for
Dramatic Festivals at Athens, pp 21-38. Reprinted in Rhodes, P.J. (2004) Athenian
Democracy, pp 207-224
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | See: Osborne, R. (1993) Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for
Dramatic Festivals at Athens, pp 207-224. Reprinted in Sommerstein, A.H. (ed.) Tragedy,
Comedy and the Polis: papers from the Greek Drama Conference, Nottingham, 18-20 July
1990, pp 21-38
Nothing to Do with Democracy: Athenian Drama and the Polis - P. J. Rhodes, 2003
Article
Week 8, Democratic Ideals and Counter-ideals (17 items)
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Hansen, M.H. (1996) The Ancient Athenian and the Modern Liberal View of
Liberty as a Democratic Ideal, pp 91-104
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | See: Mosse, C. (2004, in French 1979) How a Political Myth takes Shape: Solon,
"Founding Father" of the Athenian Democracy, pp 242-259.
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Ch. 10 and 11, P. Cartledge and M. Edge '"Rights", Individuals, and Communities
in Anceint Greece' and R.W. Wallace 'Personal Freedom in ?Greek Democracies,
Republican Rome, and Modern Liberal States'
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | See: Ober, J. (1996) The Nature of Athenian Democracy, pp 107-122 [This
chapter engages in discussion with M.H.H. over the relative importance of institutions and
ideology for our understanding of the Athenian Democracy]
Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration (6 items)
The Historical Context of Thucydides' Funeral Oration - A. B. Bosworth, 2000
Article
Pericles' Praise of Athenian Democracy Thucydides 2.37.1 - Edward M. Harris, 1992
Article
The invention of Athens: the funeral oration in the classical city - Nicole Loraux, 2006
Book
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Citizen as Erastes: Erotic Imagery and the Idea of Reciprocity in the Periclean Funeral
Oration - S. Sara Monoson, 1994
Article
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
Dawson Books, c1998
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The General Purport of Pericles' Funeral Oration and Last Speech - C. M. J. Sicking, 1995
Article
The Old Oligarch (7 items)
The Luxuries of Athenian Democracy - David Braund, 1994
Article
The constitution of the Athenians: a philological-historical analysis of Pseudo-Xenofon's
treatise De publica Atheniensium - Hartvig Frisch, Pseudo-Xenophon, 1942
Book
Polis & politics: studies in Ancient Greek history - Pernille Flensted-Jensen, Thomas Heine
Nielsen, Lene Rubinstein, Mogens Herman Hansen, 2000
Book | See: Hornblower, S. (2000) The Old Oligarch (Pseudo-Xenophon's Athenaion
Politeia) and Thucydides. A fourth-century date for the Old Oligarch?
Making sense of the Old Oligarch - John Marr, 1996
Article
The Date and Purpose of the Pseudo-Xenophon Constitution of Athens - Harold B. Mattingly
, 1997
Article
Athenian Democracy and the Concept of Justice in Pseudo-Xenophon's "Athenaion Politeia"
- Yoshio Nakategawa, 1995
Article
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
Dawson Books, c1998
Book | See: Ober, J. (1998) The Problem of Dissent: Criticism as Contest, pp 14-51
Week 9, Athenian democracy as mob-rule (17 items)
Demagogues and Demos in Athens - P.J. Rhodes, 2016
Article | Recommended
The new politicians of fifth-century Athens - W. Robert Connor, 1971
Book
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
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| See: Finley, M.I. (2004, originally 1962) Athenian Demagogues, pp 163-184.
Available via Online Resource Button.
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Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | Hanson, V.D. (1996) Hoplites into Democrats: the changing ideology of Athenian
Infantry, pp 289-312
Mass and elite in democratic Athens: rhetoric, ideology, and the power of the people Josiah Ober, American Council of Learned Societies, 1990
Book
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | See: Ober, J. (1996) Public speech and the power of the people in Democratic
Athens, pp 18-31
Political Activity in Classical Athens - P. J. Rhodes, 1986
Article
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Strauss, B.S. (1996) The Athenian Trireme, School of Democracy, pp
313-326
The Arginusai Trial (4 items)
The Arginusae Trial - A. Andrewes, 1974
Article
The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in savage conflict, 431-404 BC - Donald Kagan,
2005
Book | See: pp 459-466, available via Online Resource Button.
The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates - Mark Henderson Munn, c2000
Book | See: pp 175-187
The people of Plato: a prosopography of Plato and other Socratics - Debra Nails, c2002
Book | See: Nails, D. (2002) Excursus 2: the Arginusai Trial, pp 79-82
The Sicilian Debate (5 items)
Thucydides - Simon Hornblower, 1987
Book | See: Speeches, available via Online Resource Button.
Studies in the Greek historians: in memory of Adam Parry - Adam Parry, Donald Kagan,
1975
Book | See: Kagan, D. (1975) The Speeches in Thucydides, pp 71-94
Money and the corrosion of power in Thucydides: the Sicilian expedition and its aftermath Lisa Kallet, c2001
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| See: Chapter 1 - The Beginning of the Sicilian Narrative. Available via Online
Resource Button.
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Collected essays - Colin Macleod, 1983
Book | See: Rhetoric and history (Thuc. VI.16-18), pp 67-87
Studies in fifth-century thought and literature - Adam Parry, 1972
Book | See: Tompkins, D.P. (1972) Stylistic Characterization in Thucydides: Nicias and
Alcibiades, pp 181-224 [Only if you read Greek]
Week 10, Democracy and (in)equality (11 items)
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Cartledge, P. (1996) Comparatively Equal, pp 175-186
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | See: Ober, J. (1996) The Athenians and their Democracy, pp 123-139 [Part of this
article discusses the question whether or not Athenian Democracy was dependent on
slave labour and gives a good bibliography for it.]
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Raaflaub, K.A. (1996) Equalities and Inequalities in Athenian Democracy, pp
139-174
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Roberts, J.T. (1996) Athenian Quality: A Constant Surrounded by Flux, pp
187-202
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Wood, E.M. (1996) Demos versus "We, the People": Freedom and
Democracy Ancient and Modern, pp 121-138
Demosthenes Against Meidias (6 items)
The Language of Delivery and the Presentation of Character: Rhetorical Action in
Demosthenes' against Meidias - James Fredal, 2001
Article
Demosthenes' Speech against Meidias - Edward M. Harris, 1989
Article
Demosthenes, speeches 20-22 - Edward Monroe Harris, Demosthenes, 2008
Book | See: Introduction
Against Meidias (Oration 21) - Douglas M. MacDowell, Demosthenes, 1990
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Athenian Democracy – Model or Mob-rule? | University of Glasgow
06/16/17
Book
| See: Introduction
The Many Facets of Hybris in Demosthenes' against Meidias - Galen O. Rowe, 1993
Article
The Charge against Meidias - Galen O. Rowe, 1994
Article
Week 11, Democracy and freedom of speech and thought (21 items)
Free speech in classical antiquity - I. Sluiter, Ralph Mark Rosen, Penn-Leiden Colloquium on
Ancient Values, Dawson Books, 2004
Book | See: Balot, R.K. (2002) Free speech, courage, and democratic deliberation,
233-259
Comic Satire and Freedom of Speech in Classical Athens - Stephen Halliwell, 1991
Article
Athenian democracy - P. J. Rhodes, c2004
Book | See: Humphreys, S. (2004) Public and private interests in Classical Athens, pp
225-236
The Athenian revolution: essays on ancient Greek democracy and political theory - Josiah
Ober, c1996
Book | See: Ober, J. (1996) How to criticize democracy in late fifth and fourth century
Athens, pp 140-160
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Ch. 10-11, P. Cartledge and M. Edge '"Rights", Individuals, and Communities in
Ancient Greece' and R.W. Wallace 'Personal Freedom in Greek Democracies, Republican
Rome, and Modern Liberal States'
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Wallace, R.W. (1996) Law, freedom, and the concept of citizens' rights in
democratic Athens, pp 105-120
Plato Apology and Socrates in the democracy (15 items)
Socratic courage and the Athenian democracy - R.K. Balot, 2008
Article
Dēmokratia: a conversation on democracies, ancient and modern - Josiah Ober, Charles W.
Hedrick, c1996
Book | See: Boeghold, A. (1996) Resistance to change in the law at Athens, pp 203-214
Socrates on trial - Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith, c1988
Book
Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the trial of Socrates - Thomas C. Brickhouse,
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Athenian Democracy – Model or Mob-rule? | University of Glasgow
06/16/17
Nicholas D. Smith, 2004
Book
Socratic Citizenship: Delphic Oracle and Divine Sign - David D. Corey, 2005-3
Article
Apologizing for Socrates: Plato and Xenophon on Socrates' Behavior in Court - Gabriel
Danzig, 2003
Article
The Philosopher versus the Citizen: Arendt, Strauss, and Socrates - Dana R. Villa, 1998
Article
The trial of Sokrates: from the Athenian point of view - Mogens Herman Hansen, 1995
Book
Colloque international Démocratie athénienne et culture: organisé par l'Académie
d'Athènes en coopération avec l'UNESCO - Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Michel B.
Sakellariou, 1996
Book | See: Hansen, M.H. (1996) The trial of Socrates from the Athenian point of view,
pp 137-170
Political dissent in democratic Athens: intellectual critics of popular rule - Josiah Ober,
Dawson Books, c1998
Book | See: Ober, J. (1998) 'Plato and Socrates in Athens' and 'Gadfly Ethics', pp
156-190
Socrates in the Apology: an essay on Plato's Apology of Socrates - C. D. C Reeve, 1989
Book
On Possessed Individualism: Hegel, Socrates' Daimon, and the Modern State - Richard L.
Velkley, 2006
Article
Socratic citizenship - Dana Richard Villa, c2001
Book
A companion to Greek and Roman political thought - Ryan K. Balot, Dawson Books, c2009
Book | Chs. 21-23, D. Nails 'The Trial and Death of Socrates', R. Kamtekar 'The Politics
of Plato's Socrates', and A.W. Saxonhouse 'Freedom, Tyranny, and the Political Man:
Plato's 'Republic' and 'Gorgias', a Study in Contrasts'
Why Socrates died: dispelling the myths - Robin Waterfield, 2009
Book
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