Xenophon and the Pursuit of Willing Obedience by Cyrus the Great

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ID23458264
AuthorsLynette Mitchell (corresponding author)
Year2013
Pages7-17
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueFictional Leaders (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137272751_2
OpenAlexW2480042869
ISBN9781137272751
LanguageEN
References cited20

During the final years of the fifth century BC, the Athenians were involved in a long war with Sparta, which they eventually lost in 404. Democracy was replaced by a brutal and violent oligarchy imposed by the Spartans, although within months the democrats had ousted the regime of the so-called ‘Thirty Tyrants’ and democracy was restored. And yet democracy and the democratic ideal had suffered during the long years of war; particularly from among the Athenian intelligentsia there were, at the end of the fifth century BC and the beginning of the fourth, demands for new ways of conceptualising constitutional rule. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Ancient history · Democracy · Economic history · Ideal (ethics) · Intelligentsia · Obedience · Oligarchy · Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Ancient Near East History · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Law

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