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Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens // Arlene W. Saxonhouse.
remainder title:	Free Speech & Democracy in Ancient Athens
Author:	Saxonhouse, Arlene W.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Freedom of speech - History - To 1500. - Greece -
Subject:	Athens (Greece) - Race relations -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616068
ISBN:	9780511616068 (ebook)

Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens /
Saxonhouse, Arlene W.,

Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens /Free Speech & Democracy in Ancient AthensArlene W. Saxonhouse. - 1 online resource (x, 235 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : the invocation of Athens --pt. I.

This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form of free speech that was practised by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarchy, awe, reverence and shame. It was thus an essential ingredient of the egalitarianism of that regime. That freedom was challenged by the consequences of the rejection of shame (aidos) which had served as a cohesive force within the polity. Through readings of Socrates's trial, Greek tragedy and comedy, Thucydides's History, and Plato's Protagoras this volume explores the paradoxical connections between free speech, democracy, shame, and Socratic philosophy and Thucydidean history as practices of uncovering.

ISBN: 9780511616068 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1441934
Freedom of speech
--History--Greece--To 1500.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800394
Athens (Greece)
--Race relations

LC Class. No.: JC75.F74 / S29 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 323.44/3/09385

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