Format:
Online-Ressource (257 p.)
ISBN:
9780520245624
Content:
This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy first realized in ancient Greece? Was democracy "invented" or did it evolve over a long period of time? What were the conditions for democracy, the social and political foundations that made this development possible? And what factors turned the possibility of democracy into necessity and reality? T
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CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; 2 "People's Power" and Egalitarian Trends in Archaic Greece; 3 Revolutions and a New Order in Solonian Athens and Archaic Greece; 4 "I Besieged That Man": Democracy's Revolutionary Start; 5 The Breakthrough of Demokratia in Mid-Fifth-Century Athens; 6 Democracy, Origins of: Contribution to a Debate; 7 Power to the People; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF PRIMARY SOURCES; GENERAL INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520932173
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520258099
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece
Language:
English
Keywords:
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