First Democracy : The Challenge of an Ancient Idea

by: Woodruff, P.

Price: 14,00 EURO

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Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to export it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives - does this automatically mean that you have a democracy? In this eye-opening look at an ideal that we all take for granted, classical scholar Paul Woodruff offers some surprising answers to these questions." "Drawing on classical literature, philosophy, and history - with many intriguing passages from Sophocles, Aesop, and Plato, among others - Woodruff immerses us in the world of ancient Athens to uncover how the democratic impulse first came to life. If we learn anything from the story of Athens, Woodruff concludes, it should be this - never lose sight of the ideals of democracy. This compact book illuminates these ideals and lights the way as we struggle to keep democracy alive at home and around the world.

1. Introduction : democracy and its doubles
2. The life and death of democracy
3. Freedom from tyranny (and from being a tyrant)
4. Harmony
5. The rule of law (nomos)
6. Natural equality
7. Citizen wisdom
8. Reasoning without knowledge
9. Education (paideia)
10. Afterword : Are Americans ready for democracy?

ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΠΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΟΥ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΜΕΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΟΝΟΥΣ

by: ΚΟΡΔΩΣΗ, Μ.Σ.

• , ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 1981

Price: 95,00 EURO

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Annual of the British School at Athens, Volume 80, 1985

by:

• , , 1985

Price: 85,00 EURO

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ΜΕΛΕΤΩΝΤΑΣ ΤΙΣ ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΙΑΣ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑΣ : ΑΝΑΖΗΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΣΤΗ ΜΙΝΩΙΚΗ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ

by: ΒΑΡΔΙΝΟΓΙΑΝΝΗ, Μ.

• ISBN-13: 9789601424279 / 978-960-14-2427-9
• ISBN-03: 960142427X / 960-14-2427-X
• ΕΚΔΟΤΙΚΟΣ ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΛΙΒΑΝΗ, ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 2010

Price: 89,00 EURO

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ΝΟΣΗΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΤΥΧΗΜΑΤΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΚΕΣ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΙΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΟΥ (324-1261) ΚΑΤΑ ΤΗ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ. ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΗ / Nosemata kai atychemata stis autokratorikes oikogeneies tu Byzantiu (324-1261) : kata te Byzantine istoriographia

by: ΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, Ν.Δ. / Papademetriou, N.D.

• ISBN-13: 9789609042000 / 978-960-90420-0-0
• ISBN-03: 9609042007 / 960-90420-0-7
• , ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 1996

Price: 45,00 EURO

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Selections from the Attic Orators

by: Genner, E.E.

• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1955

Price: 25,24 EURO

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First Democracy : The Challenge of an Ancient Idea

by: Woodruff, P.

• ISBN-13: 9780195304541 / 978-0-19-530454-1
• ISBN-03: 0195304543 / 0-19-530454-3
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

Price: 14,00 EURO

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Alexander the Great I / Scholarship, Research and The Search for Alexander. Index Scriptorum / A Century and a Lustrum of Macedonian Studies / Alexander the Great at Siwah

by: Hatzopoulos, M.B. Langer, P.

• Ares Publishers, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1981

Price: 17,61 EURO

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From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology: Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Branigan

by: Relaki, M. Papadatos, Y.

• ISBN-13: 9781785709265 / 978-1-78570-926-5
• ISBN-03: 1785709267 / 1-78570-926-7
• Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2018

ΠΑΡΘΕΝΩΝ : ΕΛΓΙΝΕΙΑ ΜΑΡΜΑΡΑ

by: ΛΑΔΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, Σ.Γ. ΒΑΛΑΒΑΝΗΣ, Π.Δ.

• ΚΤΗΜΑΤΙΚΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ, ΑΘΗΝΑ / Athens, 1989