Josiah Ober

Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University

USA

Josiah Ober is a Constantine Mitsotakis Professor at the School of Humanities and Sciences and a Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. Mr. Ober is the author of Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (2017), The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (2015), Democracy and Knowledge (2008), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (2008), Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989) and other books on democracy and political thought, both ancient and modern.