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Believer's Dilemma: Volume 2

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By Abhishek Choudhary, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Carol Atack
| Pan Macmillan
The definitive, riveting conclusion to the landmark biography of India’s most enigmatic prime minister. ‘Riveting’ Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs ‘A political biography that reads like a thriller’ Telegraph India ‘Doubles as a history of Hindu supremacism . . .
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Believer's Dilemma: Volume 1

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By Abhishek Choudhary, Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Carol Atack
| Pan Macmillan
Winner of the 2023 Tata Literature First Book Award Named among the best books of 2023 by Hindu, Telegraph, and Frontline A stunningly original portrait of the rise of the Hindu Right, and the influential and enigmatic politician at its heart. ‘Doubles as a history of Hindu supremacism . . .
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Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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By Carol Atack, Stephen Halliwell
| Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Preview Hot on the heels of Robin Waterfield’s Plato of Athens, published in 2023 and presenting itself as the first ‘biography’ of Plato in English since 1839, comes another ‘life’ of Plato, this one by the Cambridge historian Carol Atack.[1] The two works inevitably cover much common ground (about Plato’s family, the regime of the Thirty, the trial of Socrates, the founding of the Academy, and so forth), but they frequently differ over points of detail.
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Le charisme en politique : Max Weber face à l'Antiquité grecque et romaine

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By Vincent Azoulay, Carol Atack, Pascal Montlahuc, Paul Cournarie
| OpenEdition
Max Weber face à l'Antiquité grecque et romaine Pascal Montlahuc, Jean-Pierre Guilhembet et Raphaëlle Laignoux (dir.) … Cet ouvrage confronte le concept wébérien de charisme aux pratiques politiques antiques. À quelles conditions peut-on parler du charisme de l’oligarque, du roi, du général, du consul, de l’empereur ? Quelles étaient, dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, les modalités concrètes de construction et de mise en scène du pouvoir charismatique ?
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Xenophon’s kinder Socrates

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By Carol Atack, Becky Clifford
| OUPblog
Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology By Carol Atack April 11th 2023 “Of Socrates we have nothing genuine but in the Memorabilia of Xenophon,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend in 1819, comparing Xenophon’s work favourably with the “mysticisms” and “whimsies” of Plato’s dialogues.
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Plato as a Theorist of Legitimacy

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By Benjamin Studebaker, Carol Atack, Mary Lenzi
| philpapers.org
International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 19 (1):25-46 () Scholars of political thought often view Plato as a ‘political moralist’, or a ‘utopian’ partly due to the Republic’s emphasis on ‘justice’. But in the Republic, Plato offers a distinctive theory of legitimacy, one that grounds legitimacy on an interdependent relationship between justice and moderation.
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Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient Greek World part 2

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By Carol Atack
| hcommons.org
More detailed syllabus for second term (spring 2016) of the University of Warwick Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient Greek World module.
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