Innovative and engaging, The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C. explores the intellectual dynamics of democracy by recreating the historical context that shaped its evolution.

Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of elaborate games in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment.   Issues of the time are sorted out by a polity fractured into radical and moderate democrats, oligarchs, and Socratics, among others.

• The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791: Reacting to the Past
• Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor: Reacting to the Past
• 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
• Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times (Yale Nota Bene)