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War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Hardcover)
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War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Hardcover)
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Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative
culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military
revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat,
strategy and military organisation and was directly responsible for
raising the scale of Greek warfare to a different order of
magnitude. The timing of this revolution is striking: it followed
directly the popular uprising of 508 BC and coincided with the
flowering of Athenian culture, which was largely brought about by
democracy. This raises the intriguing possibility that popular
government was one of the major causes of Athenian military
success. Ancient writers may have thought as much, but the
traditional assumptions of ancient historians and political
scientists have meant that the impact of democracy on war has
received almost no scholarly attention. This volume brings together
ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and political
scientists to explore this important but neglected problem from
multiple perspectives.
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