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Josiah Ober is an American historian of ancient Greece and classical political theorist. He holds the “Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professorship in honor of Constantine Mitsotakis Chair” of Classics and Political Science at Stanford University. His teaching and research links ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice. Ober was educated at the University of Minnesota (B.A., Major in History, 1975) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D., Department of History, 1980). He was a Professor of Ancient History at Montana State University (1980–1990), and then at Princeton University (1990–2006). He has received fellowships from numerous institutions, including the American Council of Learned Societies (1989–90) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1997). He delivered the 2002-2003 Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Ober was a student of the distinguished American ancient Greek historian Chester Starr, and has been the teacher of many scholars, such as the classicist John Ma, ancient Greek historian Emily Mackil, and the political theorist Ryan Balot. His early work has been criticized by scholars such as Mogens Herman Hansen for over-emphasizing the ideological aspect of Athenian democracy against its institutional dimension,〔Described definitively (though not exclusively) by Hansen in his ''The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology'', University of Oklahoma Press: New York, 1999.〕 and his more recent writing has been accused by P.J. Rhodes of abandoning scholarly impartiality in favour of democratic advocacy.〔In his ''Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology'', Duckworth: London, 2003.〕 On the whole, however, Ober's work has been well received. For example, Paul Cartledge has called ''Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens'' 'a seminal work',〔In ''The Times Higher Education Supplement''.〕 and Jennifer Roberts has called ''Political Dissent in Democratic Athens'' 'a major contribution to a dialogue of enormous import'.〔In her review of that book in ''The American Journal of Philology'' 121 (2000), 482.〕 "Ober draws on empirical evidence about the ancient world in the service of normative political theory, and in so doing sheds light not just on Athens but on the creation and operation of democratic institutions", writes professor of politics Melissa Lane. Danielle Allen, classicist and political theorist, also praised Ober's "Democracy and Knowledge' in ''The New Republic'' (2008). ==Books== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josiah Ober」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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