The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. Hansen distinguishes between the city’s seven political institutions: the Assembly, the nomothetai, the People’s Court, the boards of magistrates, the Council of Five Hundred, the Areopagos, and ho boulomenos. He discusses how Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens.
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"The most comprehensive and detailed account of the workings of the Athenian democracy by its most authoritative and knowledgeable historian. Aristotle would have been well pleased." Times Literary Supplement
"An excellent book." The Classical Review
"Truly original works that change the focus of a well-established field of study are rare. Hansen's book is such a work." Social & Behavioral Sciences --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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As a student in Université Laval in Québec city (Canada), my teachers usually recommand books in our maternal language, french. But for this class titled The Athenian Democracy, our teacher recommanded this book. This book is a piece of art, a complete view of what might have been civil right and practice in Antiquity, in Athens, that is. I also recommad it for every people interested in ancient history and in, foremost, politics. Hansen reviews political practices with an continuous effort, respecting what were man, not only statistics or technics.
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Almost everybody who writes about democracy begins with the distinction between 'direct' and 'indirect' or 'representative' democracy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ton prytaneon, eisangelia eis ton demon, jury plaques, most private suits, ekklesia kyria, rhetores kai strategoi, ancestral democracy, graphe nomon, sixfold model, epitedeion theinai, ten boulen, lexiarchikon grammateion, graphe paranomon, partial atimia, oligarchical revolutions, ephebic service, financial magistrates, many metics, assembly democracy, surviving laws, ancestral constitution, preliminary verdict, honorary decrees, most important board, king archon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peloponnesian War, Heliastic Oath, Council of Five Hundred, Ste Croix, Aristotle's Politics, Old Oligarch, Theoric Fund, Board of Generals, Council of the Areopagos, Eponymous Heroes, Philip of Macedon, Trial of the Generals, Politics Aristotle, Stoa Basileios, Suppliant Women, Theoric Board, Ath Pol, Athenian Assembly, Board of Receivers, Demetrios of Phaleron, Lamian War, Middle Ages, Delian League, Plato's Laws, United States New!
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Almost everybody who writes about democracy begins with the distinction between 'direct' and 'indirect' or 'representative' democracy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ton prytaneon, eisangelia eis ton demon, jury plaques, most private suits, ekklesia kyria, rhetores kai strategoi, ancestral democracy, graphe nomon, sixfold model, epitedeion theinai, ten boulen, lexiarchikon grammateion, graphe paranomon, partial atimia, oligarchical revolutions, ephebic service, financial magistrates, many metics, assembly democracy, surviving laws, ancestral constitution, preliminary verdict, honorary decrees, most important board, king archon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peloponnesian War, Heliastic Oath, Council of Five Hundred, Ste Croix, Aristotle's Politics, Old Oligarch, Theoric Fund, Board of Generals, Council of the Areopagos, Eponymous Heroes, Philip of Macedon, Trial of the Generals, Politics Aristotle, Stoa Basileios, Suppliant Women, Theoric Board, Ath Pol, Athenian Assembly, Board of Receivers, Demetrios of Phaleron, Lamian War, Middle Ages, Delian League, Plato's Laws, United States New!
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