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Origins of democracy in ancient Greece

The contributors to this text present a debate about the origins of Athenian democracy. The result is a stimulating critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing topic
eBook, English, c2007
University of California Press, Berkeley, c2007
History
1 online resource (xi, 242 p.)
9780520932173, 9781281752420, 9781429440097, 052093217X, 1281752428, 1429440090
1298205866
Introduction / Kurt A. Raaflaub
"People's power" and egalitarian trends in archaic Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert W. Wallace
Revolutions and a new order in solonian Athens and archaic Greece / Robert W. Wallace
"I besieged that man" : democracy's revolutionary start / Josiah Ober
The breakthrough of dēmokratia in mid-fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub
Democracy, origins of : contribution to a debate / Paul Cartledge
Power to the people / Cynthia Farrar