Dr. Josiah Ober
Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis and Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University.
e-mail: jober@stanford.edu
Some recent publications
- Ober, J. (2017).
Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press.
- Ober, J. (2015).
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. Princeton University Press.
- Ober, J. (2008).
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens. Princeton University Press.
Texts to download
- Ober, J. (2019).
“What Did Democracy Mean to Greek Democrats?”. Philosophy and Public Issues (New Series), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 73-82.
- Ober, J. & Manville, B. (2019).
“In Search of Democracy 4.0. Is Democracy as We Know It Destined to Die?”. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, March 2019, pp. 32-42.
- Ober, J. (2017).
“Mass and Elite Revisited”, in R. Evans, ed. Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds: From Sparta to Late Antiquity. Routledge, pp. 1-10.
- Ober, J. (2012).
“Interview on Athens and Democracy”. The Art of Theory.
- Ober, J. (2010).
“Thucydides on Athens’ democratic advantage in the Archidamian War”, in D. Pritchard, ed. War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Cambridge University Press, pp. 65-87.
- Ober, J. (2009).
“Can We Learn From Ancient Athenian Democracy? Historical and Modern Perspectives”, in A. Chaniotis, A. Kuhn & C. Kuhn, eds. Applied Classics: Comparisons, Constructs, Controversies. Steiner Verlag, pp. 207-230.
- Ober, J. (2009).
“After Cultural Studies: When the State Has Not Withered Away”. Republics of Letters: A Journal for the Study of Knowledge, Politics, and the Arts, Vol. 1, No. 1 .
- Ober, J. (2007).
“At the Deathbed of Alexander the Great”, in B. Hollinshead & T. K. Rabb, eds. I Wish I Had Been There II. New York, pp. 1-17.
- Ober, J. (2004).
“’I Besieged That Man’. Democracy’s Revolutionary Start”. in K. Raaflaub, J. Ober, & R. Wallace, eds. Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece. University of California Press, pp. 83-104.