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Athenian democracy
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ISBN: 1474471986 Year: 2004 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the direct government of the people by the people. Liberty meant above all freedom of speech, the right to be heard in the public assembly and the right to speak one's mind in private. Equality meant the equal right of the male citizens (perhaps 60,000 in the fifth century, 30,000 in the fourth) to participate in the government of the state and the administration of the law. Disapproved of as mob rule until the nineteenth century, the institutions of Athenian democracy have become an inspiration for modern democratic politics and political philosophy. P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice. Part I is devoted to political institutions: citizenship, the assembly, the law-courts, and capital punishment. Part II explores aspects of political activity: the demagogues and their relationship with the assembly, the manoeuvrings of the politicians, competitive festivals, and the separation of public from private life. Part III looks at three crucial points in the development of the democracy: the reforms of Solon, Cleisthenes and Ephialtes. Part IV considers what it was in Greek life that led to the development of democracy. Some of the authors adopt broad-brush approaches to major questions; others analyse a particular body of evidence in detail. Use is made of archaeology, comparison with other societies, the location of festivals in their civic context, and the need to penetrate behind what the classical Athenians made of their past.

Athenian democracy
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ISBN: 074861687X Year: 2004 Volume: *1 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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The greek city states : a source book
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ISBN: 0709942230 0709922221 9780709922223 9780709942238 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Sydney, N.S.W : Croom Helm,

A commentary on Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia
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ISBN: 0198149425 9780198149422 Year: 1993 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,


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Atthis : the ancient histories of Athens
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ISBN: 9783938032732 3938032731 Year: 2014 Publisher: Heidelberg Verlag Antike

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A history of the classical Greek world : 478-323 B.C.
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ISBN: 063122565X 9780631225652 9780631225645 0631225641 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,

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The Athenian Constitution written in the School of Aristotle
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ISBN: 9781786940704 1786940701 9781786948373 1786948370 1800345798 Year: 2017 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,


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The Athenian boule
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ISBN: 0198142919 Year: 1972 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

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The Athenian constitution
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ISBN: 0140444319 Year: 1986 Publisher: Harmondsworth Penguin books

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The Greek city states : a source book
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ISBN: 1107165059 1280909536 9786610909537 0511818033 0511285582 0511286325 0511283997 0511321317 0511284799 9780511286322 9780511283994 9780511285585 9780511818035 9780521615563 0521615569 9780521850490 0521850495 9781107165052 9781280909535 6610909539 9780511321313 9780511284793 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added.

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