Was Athenian democracy solely a product of daily practice, emerging without theoretical justification or even an ideology? Did its critics live in a separate world of opposition or did they, too, adopt concepts, notions, and ideas from the order they so disliked? This rigorously organized collection examines the principal spokespersons of the literary-theoretical opposition to democracy and the anti-democratic discourse as a whole.

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Ivan Jordovic, Universität Novi Sad; Uwe Walter, Universität Bielefeld