Democracy in classical Athens

✍ Scribed by Christopher Carey

Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Series: Classical world
Edition: Second
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Preface to the First Edition
Note to the 2001 Corrected Reprint
Preface to the Second Edition
1 First Thoughts
1.1. Defining democracy
1.2. The sources
2 The Road to Democracy
2.1 Aristocracy in crisis – the seventh century
2.2 Solon’s reforms
2.3 The sixth-century tyranny
2.4 The reforms of Kleisthenes
2.5 The 460s and after
2.6 Democracy, navy and empire
2.7 The intellectual climate
2.8 The new men
2.9 Oligarchic interludes I: The Four Hundred
2.10 Oligarchic interludes II: The Thirty
2.11 The restored democracy
2.12 Alexander and after
3 Democracy and Ideology
3.1 Democratic ideology
3.2 The limits of equality
3.3 Citizenship
4 The Core Bodies
4.1 The Council
4.2 The Assembly
4.3 The Courts
5 Serving the Democracy
5.1 The servants of the demos
5.2 Officials selected by lot
5.3 Elected officials
5.4 The secretariat
5.5 Public speakers
5.6 Accountability, risk and reward
6 Religion in the Democratic City
7 Local Government: The Demes
8 The Democratic Landscape
9 Democracy and Its Critics
Notes
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Index

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