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The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps 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. Equality was conceived of as an equality not of nature but of opportunity.
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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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- Athenian Democracy (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) by P. J. Rhodes on page 321, and Back Matter
- Politics in the Ancient World (Cambridge Paperback Library) by M. I. Finley in Back Matter
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- Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- On Democracy (Yale Nota Bene) by Professor Robert A. Dahl in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- State, Culture and Life-Modes: The Foundations of Life-Mode Analysis by Thomas Hojrup in Back Matter
- Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober in Back Matter
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