Demagogues and Demos in Athens

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6107884
AutoresP J Rhodes (1 Durham University, Department of Classics and Ancient History 38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU UK [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume33
Fascículo2
Páginas243-264
Data de publicação2016-09-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0142-257X • E-ISSN: 2051-2996
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/20512996-12340093
OpenAlexW2521763483
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas2

M. I. Finley sought to rescue the ‘demagogue’ as an essential ingredient in Athens’ democratic processes. This paper explores the interactions of politicians and the assembly. There is some evidence for pressure on men to attend and to vote on a particular side. There were many occasional speakers and proposers in addition to the few most active politicans. We should not think of a series of duels; and experienced assembly-goers were not mere ‘spectators of speeches’. Speakers could be supported by cheers or heckled. Nobody could count on the assembly’s voting as he wanted consistently time after time. Politicians sought to cultivate an image, whether the aloof, magisterial image of Pericles or the extravagantly populist image of Cleon. Orators had to master a range of strategies to succeed, but there was not a simple division between élite politicians and a lower-class demos to whose tune they had to dance

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