Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and Josiah Ober, Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University.
This conversation explores the serendipitous factors that led him to study the classical world, the insights that examining rhetoric provide about ancient Athenian society, how social media might help us fruitfully recreate aspects of the past and how the ancient Athenians didn’t just happen to stumble upon the idea of democracy—they somehow managed to make it work in practice for the better part of 200 years, all the while facing many of the same divisive societal pressures that we are currently grappling with.
This conversation will be released in a carefully-edited video format. Available now is an enhanced book developed from the conversation, while Josiah Ober is also featured in 8 short documentaries – all details are below.
“There is nothing quite like it that I know of. Ideas Roadshow should be of value both for contemporary takes on major issues in the social sciences and humanities and as an archive of senior scholars whose work has had substantial impact, reflecting on their major accomplishments across the course of a career. The intellectual content is very high.” – Josiah Ober
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
Democratic Lessons: What the Greeks Can Teach Us is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About Politics, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
Josiah Ober is featured in 8 short documentaries together with several other renowned researchers.
