Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens (Hardback)
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Short Description for Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens This book explores the contrast between our modern understanding of free speech and that of the ancient Athenians.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 19 December 2005
- Format: Hardback 248 pages
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- Categories: Political Science & Theory | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Ancient Religions & Mythologies
- ISBN 13: 9780521819855 ISBN 10: 0521819857
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Full description for Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens
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.
