Herodotus and Democracy

This chapter surveys the words used by Herodotus to characterize political entities and regimes. It then studies his use of them in particular contexts, and argues that the contrast most important to him was between freedom and despotism. Herodotus approved of freedom, but, although he sometimes used the language of democracy with reference to freedom, he did not distinguish between democracy and oligarchy except in his Persian Debate, and he did not express an opinion on democracy as distinct from oligarchy

Democracy · Linguistics · Oligarchy · Persian · Political science · Politics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical and Literary Studies · Law · Philosophy

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