Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism

Michail Theodosiadis is Post-doctoral researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he specialises in ancient Greek, Renaissance, Byzantine political thought, and Theories of International Relations. He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London (Political Philosophy). Dr Theodosiadis is actively engaged in educational diplomacy initiatives in Central Europe and the Middle East; he also contributes regularly to international scholarly and media platforms.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Delving into Promethean Politics: Uncovering Ancient Greek Roots and American Traditions1. Prometheanism and Action: Beyond Hannah Arendt2. Anti-Prometheanism: Political Pessimism and Liberal Optimism3. Dispensing the Leviathan: Ethical Memory and Parrhesia4. The French and the American Revolutions: ‘No Voice but an Echo’.5. American Populism: The ‘Lost Promethean Treasure’Epilogue: Forging the Future: Promethean Principles in Modernity and Beyond

The book recovers the ancient and modern democratic experience through the lens of contemporary interpreters such as Arendt and Lasch to reconstruct a populist - 'Promethean', in Theodosiadis' words - version of democracy as a way out of our troubled politics. This is an essential book for rethinking democracy in our political context.