The Ideology of Democratic Athens : Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past Paperback / softback
by Matteo Barbato
Part of the New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History series
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The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes.
A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions.
Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
Matteo Barbato addresses this dichotomy by providing a unitary approach to Athenian democratic ideology.
Analysing four different myths from the perspective of the New Institutionalism, he demonstrates that Athenian democratic ideology was a fluid set of ideas, values and beliefs shared by the Athenians as a result of a constant ideological practice influenced by the institutions of the democracy.
He shows that this process entailed the active participation of both the mass and the elite and enabled the Athenians to produce multiple and compatible ideas about their community and its mythical past.
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- Pages:264 pages, 10 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781474466431
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 10 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474466431
