Athenian DemocracyPeter John Rhodes Oxford University Press, 2004 - 358 pages 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 means 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 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 a 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 maneuverings 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 analyze a particular body of evidence in detail. Use is made of archeology, 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. |
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... Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens M. M. Markle 95 5 Capital Punishment 132 Louis Gernet PART II POLITICAL ACTIVITY Introduction to Part II 6 Athenian Demagogues M. I. Finley 161 163 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens P. J. Rhodes 8.
... Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens M. M. Markle 95 5 Capital Punishment 132 Louis Gernet PART II POLITICAL ACTIVITY Introduction to Part II 6 Athenian Demagogues M. I. Finley 161 163 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens P. J. Rhodes 8.
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Peter John Rhodes. 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens P. J. Rhodes 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis : A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens 185 207 Robin Osborne 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens 225 ...
Peter John Rhodes. 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens P. J. Rhodes 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis : A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens 185 207 Robin Osborne 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens 225 ...
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... Classical Journal Classica et Mediaevalia Classical Philology Classical Quarterly Classical Review Economic History Review Gnomon Greek , Roman and Byzantine Studies Hesperia Supplements Historia Einzelschriften Harvard Studies in Classical ...
... Classical Journal Classica et Mediaevalia Classical Philology Classical Quarterly Classical Review Economic History Review Gnomon Greek , Roman and Byzantine Studies Hesperia Supplements Historia Einzelschriften Harvard Studies in Classical ...
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... classical democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries was based as far as possible on active involvement of the citizens . ( Citizenship was limited to adult males of Athenian ancestry , and therefore excluded not only children but also ...
... classical democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries was based as far as possible on active involvement of the citizens . ( Citizenship was limited to adult males of Athenian ancestry , and therefore excluded not only children but also ...
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... classical Greece it was a form of government of which some people approved and others disapproved , and for many centuries afterwards it was one of which most disapproved , in the twentieth century it became the one of which almost all ...
... classical Greece it was a form of government of which some people approved and others disapproved , and for many centuries afterwards it was one of which most disapproved , in the twentieth century it became the one of which almost all ...
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