Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought [Paperback]

Jennifer Tolbert Roberts (Author)

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Paperback: 426 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (Jan 6 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691029199
ISBN-13: 978-0691029191
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,120,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Roberts (history, Southern Methodist Univ.) traces the antidemocratic tradition in Western thought from antiquity to the present, locating its origin in reactions to Athenian democracy. Fully cognizant of the difficulties attendant upon getting a true and accurate picture of any period in history--difficulties that become more onerous the further back one peers--she succeeds in convincing the reader of her thesis through the impressive, almost breathtaking wealth of detail she supplies for each period. Her knowledge is both wide and deep, touching on questions "not only of historiography, but also of ethics, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, gender studies, and educational theory." This study belongs in all pertinent academic collections.
- Leon H. Brody, U.S. Office of Personnel Mgt. Lib., Washington,
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Roberts has given us an excellent study of [the Athenian] legacy...Athens on Trial deserves praise both for its conception and its execution. -- Eric W. Robinson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

A first-rate intellectual and cultural history. -- Stephen Goode, The Washington Times

Roberts . . . writes with learning, wit, acerbity, profundity, and engagement on the vicissitudes of the idea [of democracy] in its supposedly original Athenian form. -- Paul Cartledge, New Statesman & Society

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5.0 out of 5 stars History and memory in the making of history, Aug 8 2001

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This review is from: Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought (Hardcover)

This excellent work recounts the history of views on Athens and democracy over history, with a reminder of just how recently our good opinion of democracy, and therefore of Athens, resurfaces as an aspect of modernism. This change occurring during the rise of the modern, and not really complete til the nineteenth century,at best, is a world historical change of paradigm that reversed the crypto-Platonic authoritarianism of the long millennia after the waning of the great Classical flowering in the onset of the Hellenistic. This restoration requires close study of the still ambivalent views even of many of our great early modern thinkers, and is seen in Rousseau's preoccupation with the Spartans. This work highlights an essential understanding required to understand not only the Greeks but the rise of modern democracy.

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