The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracypresents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greekpolisas a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries.Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greekpolis -city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of governmentOffers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient GreecePlaces the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern worldReveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thoughtWritten collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political scienceContent:Chapter none Introduction (pages 1–18): Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub and Peter WagnerChapter 1 Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye (pages 19–46): Johann P. ArnasonChapter 2 Transformations of Democracy (pages 47–68): Peter WagnerChapter 3 To Act with Good Advice (pages 69–98): Egon FlaigChapter 4 Democracy and Dissent (pages 99–125): Lucio BertelliChapter 5 Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth?century Greece (pages 126–143): Jonas GrethleinChapter 6 Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens (pages 144–162): Harvey YunisChapter 7 Law and Democracy in Classical Athens (pages 163–180): Adriaan LanniChapter 8 Democracy and Political Philosophy (pages 181–204): Ryan K. BalotChapter 9 Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens (pages 205–223): Elizabeth A. MeyerChapter 10 The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life (pages 225–259): Sara L. ForsdykeChapter 11 The Demos's Participation in Decision?making (pages 260–273): Claude MosseChapter 12 Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece (pages 274–297): Robin OsborneChapter 13 Democracy and War (pages 298–320): Lawrence A. TritleChapter 14 Perfecting the “Political Creature” (pages 321–350): Kurt A. RaaflaubChapter 15 Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek Polis (pages 351–370): Tracy B. StrongChapter 16 The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients (pages 371–388): Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner