Taming DemocracyHow does one speak to a large, diverse mass of ordinary, sovereign citizens and persuade them to render wise decisions? For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question. Harvey Yunis looks at how these threehistorian, philosopher, politician respectivelyexplored the instructive potential of political rhetoric as a means of "taming democracy," Plato's metaphor for controlling the