Josiah Ober
Autore di Primati e filosofi : evoluzione e moralità
Sull'Autore
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).
Opere di Josiah Ober
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People (1989) 78 copie
The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists (1990) 75 copie
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy (1994) — A cura di — 26 copie
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason (Volume 76) (Sather Classical Lectures) (2022) 17 copie
A Company of Citizens: What the World's First Democracy Teaches Leaders About Creating Great Organizations (2003) 16 copie
The Craft of th Ancient Historian: Essays in Honor of Chester G. Starr — A cura di — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Se Lenin non avesse fatto la rivoluzione. Nuove ipotesi di storie fatte con i se. (1999) — Collaboratore — 1,773 copie
Brill's Companion to Thucydides (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies) (2006) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1991 (1991) — Co-Author "Amazons" — 16 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "Alexander Dies Young" — 15 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1990 (1990) — Author "Hannibal's Dilemma" — 15 copie
Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and Its Discontents in Ancient Greece (2003) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1998 (1998) — Author "The Evil Empire" — 13 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1993 (1993) — Author "The Origins of Strategy" — 12 copie
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1991 (1990) — Author "Fortress Attica" and "The Military Highways of Ancient Greece" — 11 copie
The Cultures within Ancient Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration (2003) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War (East Gate Book) (2000) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (Critical Essays on the Classics) (2005) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)… (2006) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Law and Transaction Costs in the Ancient Economy (Law and Society in the Ancient World) (2015) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Democracy 2500?: Questions and Challenges (Colloquia and Conference Papers, No. 2) (1997) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Methods in the Mediterranean : historical and archaeological views on texts and archaeology (1995) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Ober, Josiah
- Data di nascita
- 1953-02-27
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of Michigan
University of Minnesota - Attività lavorative
- Professor of Political Science and Classics
- Organizzazioni
- Stanford University
Princeton University
Montana State University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Breve biografia
- 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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Statistiche
- Opere
- 20
- Opere correlate
- 38
- Utenti
- 1,096
- Popolarità
- #23,436
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 72
- Lingue
- 7
- Preferito da
- 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.… (altro)