Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy
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Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy

About this book

This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now. Greek Tragedy dramatized a variety of stories, characters, and voices drawn from reality, especially from those marginalized by Athens's democracy. It brought up dissident figures through its multivocal form, disrupting the perception of an ordered reality. Today, this helps us grasp the reality of Athenian democracy, that is, a system steeped in patriarchy, slavery, warmongering, and xenophobia. The book reads through two renditions of Aeschylus' Suppliants as democratic texts for the twenty-first century, to show how such multivocal dramas actually address not only the pitfalls of our contemporary democracy, but also a range of environmental, security, socio-economic, and political dilemmas that afflict democratic politics today. Written in a very accessible manner, Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy is a lively book that will appeal to any political science and international relations student interested in issues of democracy, governance, democratic peace, and democratic theory.

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Yes, you can access Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy by Mark Chou in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politica e relazioni internazionali & Saggi su politica e relazioni internazionali. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: Democracy and Tragedy
  6. Chapter 1 Democracy and Tragedy in Ancient Athens
  7. Chapter 2 A Multivocal Democracy: The Democratic Impact of Tragedy’s Multivocal Form in Ancient Athens and Today
  8. Chapter 3 Dramatizing Democracy: Introducing Aeschylus’ Suppliants
  9. Chapter 4 Marginal Women, Marginalized Stories: Democracy and the Politics of Fifth-Century Supplication
  10. Chapter 5 Civilization and Violence: A New Vision for Contemporary Democracy
  11. Chapter 6 Towards a Multivocal Democracy
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index