This book aims to build a solid and proper contribution to the contemporary global debate on the experience of democracy and its possibilities as the most effective mediator of a series of challenges, a debate that is necessarily rooted in the critical reassessment of its Greek cultural heritage. The book is articulated around the identification of a concrete problem: the need for studies that critically discuss Athenian democracy, seen as a daily problem and practice, based on its staseis (crises) and metabolai (changes), and whose solutions and strategies may still contribute to the reflection on the social, intellectual and ethical-political challenges of contemporary democracy.
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Delfim Ferreira Leão
Damasias and Thales: stasis and sophia at the term of Solon’s apodemiapp.11-24
Denis Correa
The (not so violent) staseis and metabolai in the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeiapp.25-41
Martinho Soares
Nature and natural phenomena in Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War: physis and kinesis as factors of political disturbancepp.43-71
Lucia Sano, Breno Battistin Sebastiani
Democracy under the kothornos: Thucydides and Xenophon on Theramenespp.73-92
Maria do Céu Fialho
Uniting past and present: Sicily as a locus of identity between Greece and Romepp.93-108
Priscilla Gontijo Leite
Forms of government and rhetoric: perceptions of democracy and oligarchy in Demosthenespp.109-129
Book Title
Crises (Staseis) and Changes (Metabolai)
Book Subtitle
Athenian Democracy in the Making
Editors
Breno Battistin Sebastiani, Delfim Ferreira Leão
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
140
Publication Year
2022
Copyright Information
© 2022 Author(s)
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Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-612-4
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-611-7
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-612-4
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-613-1
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-614-8
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919