This enticing paintings tells the tale of democracy throughout the point of view of tragic drama. It exhibits how the traditional stories of greatness and its loss aspect to the capability hazards of democracy then and now.
Greek Tragedy dramatized numerous tales, characters, and voices drawn from fact, specifically from these marginalized by means of Athens's democracy. It pointed out dissident figures via its multivocal shape, disrupting the belief of an ordered truth. this day, this is helping us grab the truth of Athenian democracy, that's, a method steeped in patriarchy, slavery, warmongering, and xenophobia. The publication reads via renditions of Aeschylus' Suppliants as democratic texts for the twenty-first century, to teach how such multivocal dramas truly handle not just the pitfalls of our modern democracy, but in addition a variety of environmental, protection, socio-economic, and political dilemmas that afflict democratic politics today.
Written in a really available demeanour, Greek Tragedy and modern Democracy is a full of life publication that may entice any political technological know-how and diplomacy pupil attracted to problems with democracy, governance, democratic peace, and democratic theory.
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