Eubulides wrote:
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> "It is the country that desperately needs leaders that the strong democrat
> worries over and pities...On its face, leadership is opposed to
> participatory self-government; it acts in place of or to some degree
> encroaches on the autonomy of individual actors...Complete self-government
> by an active citizenry would leave no room for leaders or followers.
> [Benjamin Barber]
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I'll join the game of giving reading assignments:
Robin Osborne, Demos: The Discovery of Classical Attika Martin Ostwald, Nomos and the Beginnings of Athenian Democracy M.I. Finley, Democracy Ancient and Modern Chester G. Starr, The Ancient Greeks M.I. Finley, The Ancient Greeks
:-)
Carrol