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Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens (Paperback)
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Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens (Paperback)
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This book 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.
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