Insults in Classical Athens, written by Deborah Kamen

Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens

The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...

Epistemic democracy in classical Athens : Sophistication , diversity , and innovation

Analysis of democracy in Athens as an “epistemic” (knowledge-based) form of political and social organization. Adapted from Ober, Democracy and Knowledge, chapters 1-4. Jon Elster (ed.), volume on “Collective Wisdom” (to be published in English and French). © Josiah Ober. [email protected]

Deborah McCollister

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

What is an Innovation Ecosystem ? By Deborah

One expects there to be a conceptual analogy between an innovation ecosystem and the biological ecosystems observed in nature. The biological ecosystem is a system that includes all living organisms (biotic factors) in an area as well as its physical environments (abiotic factors) functioning together as a unit. It is characterized by one or more equilibrium states, where a relatively stable se...