Thucydides’ Description of Democracy (2.37.1) and the EU-Convention of 2003
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">The view that the term</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>demokratia</em><...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Duke University
2010-11-01
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| Series: | Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| Online Access: | http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/841 |
| Summary: | <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">The view that the term</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><em>demokratia</em></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">was pejorative, and that Pericles praises liberty at the expense of democracy and so was misunderstood by the EU-convention, misreads the Funeral Oration and is contradicted by instances of Athenian praise of democracy.</span> |
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| ISSN: | 0017-3916 2159-3159 |