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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 beliefs we hold dear but seldom question, Samons examines Athens's history in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. in order to test the popular idea that majority rule leads to good government. Challenging many basic assumptions about the character and success of Athenian democracy, What's Wrong with Democracy? offers fascinating and accessible discussions of topics including the dangers of the popular vote, Athens's acquisitive foreign policy, the tendency of the state to overspend, the place of religion in Athenian society, and more. Sure to generate controversy, Samons's bold and iconoclastic book finds that democracy has begun to function like an unacknowledged religion in our culture, immune from criticism and dissent, and he asks that we remember the Athenian example and begin to question our uncritical worship of democratic values such as freedom, choice, and diversity.

Political culture --- Representative government and representation --- Republicanism --- Direct democracy --- Democracy --- Direct legislation --- Referendum --- History. --- United States --- Civilization --- Greek influences. --- american government. --- ancient greece. --- athenian democracy. --- athenian government. --- athenian society. --- choice. --- classical athenian democracy. --- democracy. --- democratic governments. --- dissent. --- diversity. --- elections. --- foreign policy. --- freedom. --- government and governing. --- government and religion. --- government. --- historical. --- history. --- national defense. --- peloponnesian war. --- political systems. --- political theory. --- politics. --- popular vote. --- public finance. --- qualifications for citizenship. --- religion. --- united states of america. --- voting.

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Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know-or might know-about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in antiquity.

Attic Greek dialect --- Stone-cutters --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Greek language --- Greek inscriptions --- Greek philology --- Granite cutters --- Marble cutters --- Stone industry and trade --- Writing. --- History. --- Macedonia --- Athens (Greece) --- Inscriptions, Greek -- Greece -- Attike.. --- Stone-cutters -- Greece -- Attike -- History.. --- Attic Greek dialect -- Writing.. --- Athens (Greece) -- History.. --- Macedonia -- History. --- agora xvi. --- ancient greece. --- antiquity. --- archaeology. --- archon. --- archonship. --- aristion. --- athenian democracy. --- athens. --- attic decrees. --- attic letter cutters. --- attica. --- chaironeia. --- chremonidean war. --- classical studies. --- cutter of agora. --- demetrios. --- democracy. --- demosthenes. --- diomedon. --- eleusis. --- ephebes. --- eurykleides. --- government. --- greek history. --- hellenism. --- history. --- kings. --- macedon. --- macedonia. --- marble. --- nonfiction. --- occupation. --- oligarchy. --- olympiodoros. --- phaleron. --- politics. --- ptolemy. --- regime. --- sortition. --- stonemasons. --- writing.

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The division of land and consolidation of territory that created the Greek polis also divided sacred from productive space, sharpened distinctions between purity and pollution, and created a ritual system premised on gender difference. Regional sanctuaries ameliorated competition between city-states, publicized the results of competitive rituals for males, and encouraged judicial alternatives to violence. Female ritual efforts, focused on reproduction and the health of the family, are less visible, but, as this provocative study shows, no less significant. Taking a fresh look at the epigraphical evidence for Greek ritual practice in the context of recent studies of landscape and political organization, Susan Guettel Cole illuminates the profoundly gendered nature of Greek cult practice and explains the connections between female rituals and the integrity of the community. In a rich integration of ancient sources and current theory, Cole brings together the complex evidence for Greek ritual practice. She discusses relevant medical and philosophical theories about the female body; considers Greek ideas about purity, pollution, and ritual purification; and examines the cult of Artemis in detail. Her nuanced study demonstrates the social contribution of women's rituals to the sustenance of the polis and the identity of its people.

Sacred space --- Women --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- History. --- Religious life --- Artemis --- Αρτεμις --- أرتميس --- Ārtimīs --- Artemisa --- Artemida --- Артэміда --- Артемида --- Artemiso --- 아르테미스 --- Arŭt'emisŭ --- Artemide --- ארטמיס --- Artemi --- Artemisz --- アルテミス --- Артеміда --- 阿耳忒弥斯 --- A'ertemisi --- Diana --- Cult. --- Greece --- Religious life and customs. --- Artemis (Greek deity) --- Religion. --- Women -- Religious life -- Greece -- History.. --- Sacred space -- Greece -- History.. --- Artemis (Greek deity) -- Cult.. --- Greece -- Religion. --- ancient history. --- ancient law. --- anthropology. --- antiquity. --- arete. --- artemis. --- athenian democracy. --- city states. --- community. --- competition. --- family. --- female body. --- feminism. --- fertility. --- folk religion. --- folklore. --- gender difference. --- gender roles. --- gender. --- greece. --- greek ritual. --- greeks. --- hubris. --- law. --- legal system. --- masculinity. --- mythology. --- nonfiction. --- polic. --- pollution. --- purity. --- religion. --- reproduction. --- rite. --- ritual. --- sacred space. --- sexuality. --- social body. --- tradition. --- violence. --- women. --- womens rituals.

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In recent years, most political theorists have agreed that shame shouldn't play any role in democratic politics because it threatens the mutual respect necessary for participation and deliberation. But Christina Tarnopolsky argues that not every kind of shame hurts democracy. In fact, she makes a powerful case that there is a form of shame essential to any critical, moderate, and self-reflexive democratic practice. Through a careful study of Plato's Gorgias, Tarnopolsky shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. For Plato, three kinds of shame and shaming practices were possible in democracies, and only one of these is similar to the form condemned by contemporary thinkers. Following Plato, Tarnopolsky develops an account of a different kind of shame, which she calls "respectful shame." This practice involves the painful but beneficial shaming of one's fellow citizens as part of the ongoing process of collective deliberation. And, as Tarnopolsky argues, this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form. Tarnopolsky also challenges the view that the Gorgias inaugurates the problematic oppositions between emotion and reason, and rhetoric and philosophy. Instead, she shows that, for Plato, rationality and emotion belong together, and she argues that political science and democratic theory are impoverished when they relegate the study of emotions such as shame to other disciplines.

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In a major revisionary approach to ancient Greek culture, Sarah Morris invokes as a paradigm the myths surrounding Daidalos to describe the profound influence of the Near East on Greece's artistic and literary origins.

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