The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists

By Barry S. Strauss

The anatomy of error

By Barry S. Strauss

Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.: Reacting to the Past

By Josiah Ober, Mark C. Carnes

Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece

By Josiah Ober, Robert Wallace, Kurt A. Raaflaub

Political dissent in democratic Athens

By Josiah Ober

How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and lit...

The Athenian Revolution

By Josiah Ober

The Athenian revolution

By Josiah Ober

Where did "democracy" come from, and what is its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens...

Demokratia

By

This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek...

Demokratia

By

This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek...

Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens

By Josiah Ober