Josiah Ober
Auteur de Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
A propos de l'auteur
Josiah Ober is the Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. His books include Athenian Legacies, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens, and Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (all Princeton).
Œuvres de Josiah Ober
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People (1989) 78 exemplaires
The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists (1990) 75 exemplaires
The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory (1996) 49 exemplaires
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (2007) — Directeur de publication; Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (1996) — Directeur de publication — 29 exemplaires
Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (The Seeley Lectures) (2017) 28 exemplaires
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy (1994) — Directeur de publication — 26 exemplaires
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason (Volume 76) (Sather Classical Lectures) (2022) 17 exemplaires
A Company of Citizens: What the World's First Democracy Teaches Leaders About Creating Great Organizations (2003) 16 exemplaires
'Lessons of Demopolis: Wisdom from classical Greece - democracy and liberalism ... ' in Aeon Magazine, 4 Feb 2016 1 exemplaire
The Craft of th Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Contributeur — 1,773 exemplaires
What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2001) — Contributeur — 1,029 exemplaires
Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context (1990) — Contributeur — 46 exemplaires
Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics (1993) — Contributeur — 36 exemplaires
Brill's Companion to Thucydides (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2006) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1991 (1991) — Co-Author "Amazons" — 16 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Alexander Dies Young" — 15 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1990 (1990) — Author "Hannibal's Dilemma" — 15 exemplaires
Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (2003) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1998 (1998) — Author "The Evil Empire" — 13 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1993 (1993) — Author "The Origins of Strategy" — 12 exemplaires
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1991 (1990) — Author "Fortress Attica" and "The Military Highways of Ancient Greece" — 11 exemplaires
The Cultures within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration (2003) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (East Gate Book) (2000) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics) (2005) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)… (2006) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
How to Do Things with History: New Approaches to Ancient Greece (2018) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy (Law and Society in the Ancient World) (2015) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Democracy 2500?: Questions and Challenges (Colloquia and Conference Papers, No. 2) (1997) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Methods in the Mediterranean : historical and archaeological views on texts and archaeology (1995) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Ober, Josiah
- Date de naissance
- 1953-02-27
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of Michigan
University of Minnesota - Professions
- Professor of Political Science and Classics
- Organisations
- Stanford University
Princeton University
Montana State University - Prix et distinctions
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Courte biographie
- Josiah Ober, formerly the David Magie '97 Class of 1897 Professor of Classics at Princeton University, is the Constantine Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. In addition to his ongoing work on knowledge and innovation in democratic Athens, he is interested in the relationship between democracy as a natural human capacity and its association with moral responsibility. [adapted from Primates and Philosophers (2006)]
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- Œuvres
- 20
- Aussi par
- 38
- Membres
- 1,096
- Popularité
- #23,436
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 18
- ISBN
- 72
- Langues
- 7
- Favoris
- 1
As a fan of ancient history familiar with each of the battles described, I could easily follow the rather cursory summaries provided. Perhaps this would be a bit more difficult for those with no background into the subject matter.
The book flows well and objectively described the various encounters. Further, the authors' analysis of the strategic errors are interesting and rarely found standard battle narratives.… (plus d'informations)