Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which "gave" the world
democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of
liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It is
embedded in the assumptions of Western powers who proclaim their
faith in the global spread of democratic governance and at the same
time wielded by protesters in the developing world who challenge
what they view as the West's cultural imperialism. Thus, a lively
and well informed treatment of the nexus between politics in
antiquity and political discourse in the modern era is both timely
and apposite.
As Kostas Vlassopoulos shows, much can be learned about the
practice of politics from a comparative discussion of the classical
and the contemporary. His starting point is that the value of
looking back to a political system with different assumptions and
elements can help us think, and even shape, what the future of
modern politics might be. He discusses the contrasting political
systems of Athens, Sparta and Rome; the political theories of
thinkers like Plato, Aristotle and Cicero; how great events like
the Peloponnesian War or the Roman civil wars shaped the course of
political theory; and the discovery of freedom, participation and
equality as political values in antiquity. Above all, the book
shows how important and surprising an analysis of the ancient world
can be in reassessing and revaluating modern political debates.
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