Freedom and power in classical Athens /

"Using political theory, sociological theory, and philology, this book develops a new historically sensitive account of democratic freedom and power. The freedom of a citizen empowered him to do 'whatever he wished,' with positive and negative consequences at all levels of Athenian de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Campa, Naomi T., 1983- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Cambridge University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:	Civil rights > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500. Democracy > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500. Power (Social sciences) > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500. Athens (Greece) > Politics and government. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : freedom, power, and Athenian democracy
Democratic eleutheria as positive freedom
Oratorical ambiguity
Power and the citizen
The powerless and unfree : a case study
Conclusion : the reach of freedom.