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490вЂ“463) 105 Reversed Alliances and Continuing Expansion (ca. 561вЂ“490) 101 The Persian Wars and the Creation of the Athenian Empire (ca. L i s t o f m a p s a n d i l lu s t r at i o n s p re fac e xiii a b b rev i at i o n s xixДЄthenian Society and Government Athens and Polis Government 20 Athens after SolonвЂ™s Reforms 26 Athenian History in the Classical PeriodДў Democracy and Demagogues: Election, Voting, and Qualifications for Citizenship Qualifications for Citizenship 45 Did the Demos Rule Well? 49 Leaders versus Demagogues: The Case of Pericles Modern Confusion about Election 68ДЈ Public Finance: Democracy and the PeopleвЂ™s PurseД§2 The Spoils of Battle and the Fruits of the Earth (483/2вЂ“431) 73 War, Taxes, Debt, and Revolution (431вЂ“399) 85 Digression: Democracy and the Athenian Self-Image 92 Epilogue: Paying the Public or Funding the Military? (399вЂ“322) 95Д¤ Foreign Policy I: Democracy Imperial 100 Early Athenian Ambitions in the Aegean (ca. Can you suggest any device which will make our citizens believe this story? glaucon: I cannot see any way to make them believe it themselves, but the sons and later generations might, both theirs and those of other men. Socrates: What device could we п¬Ѓnd to make our rulers, or at any rate the rest of the city, believe us if we told them a noble lie, one of those necessary untruths of which we have spoken?. But where it is both traditional and customary to reverence the gods, to care for our parents, to respect our elders, to obey the laws, and in such a community to ensure that the will of the majority prevails-this situation it is proper to describe as a democracy.

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a state in which the mass of citizens is free to do whatever it pleases or takes into its head is not a democracy.

democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Pangle)Д«oswell: So, Sir, you laugh at schemes of political improvement? johnson: Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. the athenian Plato, Laws 660cвЂ“d (trans.Thomas L. It meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48вЂ“1992 (r 1997) (Permanence of Paper).ДЇor it is not at all pleasant to rail at incurable practices and errors that are far developed, though sometimes it is necessary. JC421.S32 2004 321.8-dc22 2004008500 Manufactured in the United States of America 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication is both acid-free and totally chlorine-free (tcf). United States-Civilization-Greek influences.

Representative government and representation-United States. Includes bibliographical references and index. WhatвЂ™s wrong with democracy? : from Athenian practice to American worship / Loren J. London, England В© 2004 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Samons, Loren J. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd.

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