The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens

The remarkable spread of democracy in the late-twentieth century has led to renewed interest in the roots of western democracy in ancient Athens. This study examines a facet of the Athenian experience that has received less scholarly attention than it deserves: the nature and scope of bad citize...

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Autore principale: Christ, Matthew
Natura: Libro
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Cambridge University Press 2013
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Accesso online:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35529
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Riassunto:The remarkable spread of democracy in the late-twentieth century has led to renewed interest in the roots of western democracy in ancient Athens. This study examines a facet of the Athenian experience that has received less scholarly attention than it deserves: the nature and scope of bad citizenship in classical Athens (508/7–322/1 B.C.) and the city’s responses, institutional and ideological, to this. Good citizenship is not ubiquitous in modern democracies, and it was not in democratic Athens