Phocion
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Thomas R. Martin recounts the unmatched political and military
career of Phocion of Athens, and his tragic downfall &,nbsp,
Phocion (402–318 BCE) won Athens’s highest public office by direct
democratic election an unmatched forty-five times and was
officially honored as a “Useful Citizen.” A student at Plato’s
Academy, Phocion gained influence and power during a time when
Athens faced multiple crises stemming from Macedonia’s emergence as
an international power under Philip II and his son Alexander the
Great. Following Athens’s defeat by Macedonia, Phocion
unsuccessfully sought mild terms of surrender.Oligarchy was imposed
on democratic Athens, and more than twelve thousand “undesirable”
Athenians were exiled. When the oligarchic regime was overthrown
and the exiles returned, dispossessed Athenians took out their
volcanic anger on Phocion, who throughout his career had often been
a harsh critic of the citizens’ political decisions. His
inflammatory rhetoric contributed to the popular conclusion that he
lacked a genuine sense of belonging to the community he wished so
desperately to preserve.When he was eighty-four, the Athenians
convicted him of treason and condemned him to die by hemlock. In
this fresh biography, Thomas R. Martin explores how and why Phocion
ultimately failed as a citizen and as a leader.His story offers
unsetting lessons for citizens in democracies today.
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Yale University Press ,
Thomas R. Martin
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Yale University Press,
Thomas R. Martin
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Slovart
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