thucydides’ description of democracy (2.37.1) and the eu-convention of 2003
;Mogens Herman Hansen
Fitoterapia2010Vol. 48pp. 15-26
127
hansen2010greek,thucydides
Abstract
The view that the termdemokratiawas pejorative, and that Pericles praises liberty at the expense of democracy and so was misunderstood by the EU-convention, misreads the Funeral Oration and is contradicted by instances of Athenian praise of democracy.