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, DEMOCRACY ANCIENT AND MI. FINLEY isj B B B B B B B B B B B THOMAS J. BATA LIBRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY THE AUTHOR Born and educated in the United States, Sir Moses Finley came to England in 1954 after a distinguished and varied academic career, which began when he received his BA magna cum laude from Syracuse University in 1927 at the age of fifteen. Since 1955 he has been at the University of Cambridge, where he is now Professor Emeritus of Ancient History. He was a lecturer in Classics from 1955-64, Reader in Ancient Social and Econ¬ omic History from 1964-70, and Professor of Ancient History from 1970-79. A Fellow of Jesus College for almost twenty years, he served as Master of Darwin College from 1976-84. He was knighted in 1979. — Already in 1954 he was ‘the best living social" historian of Greece’ (Arnaldo Momigliano). Since then his reputation and influence have spread worldwide through his inspirational teaching and lecturing, and his incisive editing, reviewing and writing. The World of Odysseus (1954) and The Ancient Greeks (1963) were two of his earliest, and still best-known, books; more recently, a collection of his essays conveying many of his central ideas and conclusions was published under the title Economy and Society in Ancient Greece (1981). The Ancient Economy, first published in 1972, is also avail¬ able as a Hogarth Press paperback, in a revised and enlarged edition (1985). By the same author STUDIES IN LAND AND CREDIT IN ANCIENT ATHENS THE WORLD OF ODYSSEUS THE ANCIENT GREEKS ASPECTS OF ANTIQUITY ANCIENT SICILY: TO THE ARAB CONQUEST EARLY GREECE: THE BRONZE AND ARCHAIC AGES THE ANCESTRAL CONSTITUTION THE ANCIENT ECONOMY THE USE AND ABUSE OF HISTORY THE OLYMPIC GAMES: THE FIRST THOUSAND YEARS THE IDEA OF A THEATRE: THE GREEK EXPERIENCE ANCIENT SLAVERY AND MODERN IDEOLOGY ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ANCIENT HISTORY: EVIDENCE AND MODELS Editor THE GREEK HISTORIANS SLAVERY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY STUDIES IN ANCIENT SOCIETY STUDIES IN ROMAN PROPERTY ATLAS OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY THE LEGACY OF GREECE ANCIENT CULTURE AND SOCIETY SERIES DEMOCRACY ANCIENT AND MODERN M. I. Finley Second Edition THE HOGARTH PRESS LONDON Published in 1985 by The Hogarth Press 40 William IV Street, London WC2N 4DF First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus 1973 This second edition offset from the revised and enlarged edition published by Rutgers University Press in 1985, with corrections to the text and notes, two additional chapters, and a new index. Copyright © Sir Moses Finley 1973, 1985 British Library' Cataloguing in Publication Data Finley, M. I. Democracy ancient and modern. - 2nd ed. 1. Democracy 2. Greece - History - To 146 B.C. I. Title 32i.8'0938 JC75.D36 ISBN 0 7012 0663 2 Printed in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd Reading, Berkshire To My Friends and Students at Rutgers University, 1948-52 Contents PREFACE ix PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xi 1 LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS 3 2 ATHENIAN DEMAGOGUES 38 3 DEMOCRACY, CONSENSUS AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST 76 4 SOCRATES AND AFTER 110 5 CENSORSHIP IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY 142 NOTES 173 INDEX 187