Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This 1999 book discusses the ways performance is central to the practice and ideology of Athenian democracy.

These new and specially commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From

Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.

This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.

Investigates the construction of democratic ideology in Classical Athens through a study of the social memory of Athens' mythical pastProposes a novel approach