Civil Disobedience in Antiquity

Download or read book Civil Disobedience in Antiquity written by David Daube and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book derives from the Messenger Lectures at Cornell. In it Daube provides a synoptic view of nonviolent civil disobedience in the Ancient World. His learning lets him draw freely on Greek and Roman sources--theological, legal historical, literary, dramatic, and popular. From these he shows that there is hardly a variety of civil disobedience known today which is not anticipated in some form or another by the ancients. Is this book more than an entertaining exercise of scholarship? Professor Daube writes, "To speak through historical figures is sometimes wiser than to declare in one's own name. The word 'person' originally means a mask . . . Civil disobedience can at all times profitably avail itself of persons."