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What's Wrong with Democracy?: From Athenian Practice to American Worship
Loren J. J. Samons II
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Description for What's Wrong with Democracy?: From Athenian Practice to American Worship
paperback. An assessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the US. It offers discussion of topics such as dangers of popular vote, Athens' acquisitive foreign policy, the tendency of the state to overspend, and the place of religion in Athenian society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 3 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J. Samons provides ample justification for our founding fathers' distrust of democracy, a form of government they scorned precisely because of their familiarity with classical Athens. How Americans have come to embrace 'democracy' in its modern form - and what the positive and negative effects have been - is an important story for all contemporary citizens. Confronting head-on many of the ... Read more
Fifth-century Athens is praised as the cradle of democracy and sometimes treated as a potential model for modern political theory or practice. In this daring reassessment of classical Athenian democracy and its significance for the United States today, Loren J. Samons provides ample justification for our founding fathers' distrust of democracy, a form of government they scorned precisely because of their familiarity with classical Athens. How Americans have come to embrace 'democracy' in its modern form - and what the positive and negative effects have been - is an important story for all contemporary citizens. Confronting head-on many of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
327
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520251687
SKU
V9780520251687
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About Loren J. J. Samons II
Loren J. Samons II is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Associate Dean for Students, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University. He is author of Empire of the Owl (2000), editor of Athenian Democracy and Imperialism (1998), and coauthor, with Charles W. Fornara, of Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles (California, 1991).
Reviews for What's Wrong with Democracy?: From Athenian Practice to American Worship
“Samons’s book is a nuanced and perceptive history of classical Athenian democracy. Well organized and lucidly and convincingly written . . . [it] brings to light underappreciated aspects of Athens’s democratic development.”
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