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    Can Classical Athens Offer Lessons for a Large, Pluralistic Society?Jennifer T. Roberts - 2023 - Common Knowledge 29 (3):324-341.
    Recoiling from the power that Athenian democracy placed in the hands of the poor, the founding fathers of the United States took Athens as primarily an anti-model, whereas nineteenth-century defenders of slavery found Athens a very congenial model indeed, seeming as it did to lend a mantle of legitimacy to an unspeakable practice. After a “honeymoon period” in which democracy was idealized as the only legitimate form of government, now at the outset of the twenty-first century the alliance of democracy (...)
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    A Historical Commentary on Thucydides, Vol. V: Book VIII.Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, A. W. Gomme, A. Andrewes & K. J. Dover - 1981 - American Journal of Philology 102 (4):448.
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    Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory (review).Jennifer Tolbert Roberts - 1999 - American Journal of Philology 120 (4):621-624.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political TheoryJennifer RobertsJ. Peter Euben. Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xvi 1 271 pp. Cloth, $55, £37.50; paper, $18.95, £13.95.Who, Socrates asks Meletus, improves the young men of Athens? The laws, Meletus replies. But which people, Socrates wants to know, which men? These very dicasts here. All of them, Meletus, or just (...)
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    Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule (review).Jennifer Tolbert Roberts - 2000 - American Journal of Philology 121 (3):479-482.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular RuleJennifer T. RobertsJosiah Ober. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. xvi + 417 pp. Cloth, $35, £24.95.Making sound political decisions requires hard thinking. Most people do not want to think very hard, and some lack the capacity to do so. Many make decisions on the basis of narrow self-interest, and (...)
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    Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History by Debra Hamel.Jennifer T. Roberts - 2014 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 107 (4):558-559.
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  6. Ademollo, Francesco. The Cratylus of Plato: A Commentary. Cambridge: Cam-bridge University Press, 2011. xx+ 538 pp. 1 black-and-white fig. Cloth, $140. Adler, Eric. Valorizing the Barbarians: Enemy Speeches in Roman Historiography. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. xiii+ 269 pp. Cloth, $55. Africa, Thomas W. A Historian's Palette: Studies in Greek and Roman History. [REVIEW]Lauren J. Apfel, Amalia Avramidou, Anne Balansard, Gilles Dorival, Mireille Loubet, Lee L. Brice, Jennifer T. Roberts, Peter Burian & Alan Shapiro - 2011 - American Journal of Philology 132:683-690.
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