Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS vii Paul Cartledge received his DPhil from Oxford in 1975. He is currently Professor of Greek History in the Faculty of Classics and Professorial Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge. His main interests are Greek social, political, and cultural history, Sparta’s history through the ages, and the continuing signiWcance of ancient history in our own time. He has edited or coedited several volumes, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Greece (1998) and Money, Labour, and Land: Approaches to the Economies of Ancient Greece (2002), and recently published Spartan Reflections (2001); The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others, second edition (2002); The Spartans, second edition (2003); Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past, revised edition (2005); and Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World (2006). He is currently writing a specialist history of Greek political thought from Homer to Plutarch. Cynthia Farrar received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1984. She currently directs a project on deliberation and local governance at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and teaches in the Department of Political Science. She explores and pursues strategies for energizing citizenship, particularly at the local level. Among other projects, she coordinates the Citizen Deliberations for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions’ national By the People initiative. She is the author of The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens (1988) and articles on deliberative democracy. Josiah Ober received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1980. He is Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. He works primarily within and between the areas of Athenian history, classical political philosophy, and democratic theory and practice. His current research focuses on problems of collective action, knowledge exchange, and human nature. His books include Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (1998), The Athenian Revolution (1996), and Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together (2005). Kurt Raaflaub received his PhD from the University of Basel in 1970. He is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History as well as Director of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. His interests focus on archaic and classical Greek and Roman republican social, political, and intellectual history as well as comparative history of the ancient world. He has recently coedited Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (1998) and War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (1999) and published The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004). A volume of collected essays to be titled War and Peace in the Ancient World is in press. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Early Greek Political Thought in Its Mediterranean Context. Robert Wallace received his PhD from Harvard University in 1984. He is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. His main interests are in archaic and classical Greek and Roman republican history, Greek law, Greek music theory, and numismatics. He has coedited Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece (1997) and Symposion 2001: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (2001) and published The Areopagos Council to 307 b.c. (1989) and Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Democratic Athens (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book titled Freedom and Community in Democratic Athens. viii about the authors ...