Thucydides’ Description of Democracy (2.37.1) and the EU-Convention of 2003

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  • Mogens Herman Hansen

Abstract

The view that the term demokratia was pejorative, and that Pericles praises liberty at the expense of democracy and so was misunderstood by the EU-convention, misreads the Funeral Oration and is contradicted by instances of Athenian praise of democracy.

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2008-03-26

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