How Long to Read The Athenian Revolution

How Long Does it Take to Read The Athenian Revolution?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read The Athenian Revolution by Josiah Ober

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history. When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that have placed the concept of rights at the center of modern political thought. Thus the play of power that constituted life in democratic Athens is revealed as at once strangely familiar and desperately foreign, and the values sustaining the Athenian political community as simultaneously admirable and terrifying.

How long is The Athenian Revolution?

The Athenian Revolution by Josiah Ober is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Athenian Revolution Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read The Athenian Revolution aloud.

What Reading Level is The Athenian Revolution?

The Athenian Revolution is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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