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Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.: Reacting to the Past
Mark C. Carnes, Barnard College, Columbia University
Josiah Ober

ISBN-10: 0321333039
ISBN-13: 9780321333032

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 128 pp
Published: 11/02/2004

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Innovative and engaging, The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores the intellectual dynamics of democracy by recreating the historical context that shaped its evolution.

 

Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Issues of the time are sorted out by a polity fractured into radical and moderate democrats, oligarchs, and Socratics, among others.

  • This inexpensive text can be used on its own or as a supplementary text.
  • Important historical readings, such as Plato’s Republic, as well as excerpts from Thucydides, Xenophon, and other contemporary sources, fuel student debates.
  • “Reacting” improves speaking, writing and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities.
  • Students “run” each game, which includes multiple roles for classes.
  • “Reacting” can be used for a wide variety of curricular and institutional purposes—as the foundation for a first-year general education, an upper-class “capstone” experience, the discussion component of a large lecture class, or be enlisted for intersession courses, honors programs, and other specialized curricular purposes.

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    ISBN-10: 0321418786 | ISBN-13: 9780321418784
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    ISBN-10: 0321333586 | ISBN-13: 9780321333582


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    Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Students are leaders of major factions within the National Assembly (and in the streets outside) as it struggles to create a constitution amidst internal chaos and threats of foreign invasion.

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    Innovative and engaging, The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores the intellectual dynamics of democracy by recreating the historical context that shaped its evolution.

     

    Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Issues of the time are sorted out by a polity fractured into radical and moderate democrats, oligarchs, and Socratics, among others.

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    © 2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 128 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321333039 | ISBN-13: 9780321333032
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    ISBN-10: 0321332288 | ISBN-13: 9780321332288
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