Beschreibung:
Luca Asmonti currently lectures at the University of Queensland, Australia. His research interests include Athenian democracy between the fifth and fourth centuries BC; Greek-Persian relations in the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War; and political oratory in Athens.
An unrivalled collection of source material, often unavailable in translation, on the history and philosophy of the world's first democracy.
Introduction 1: What do we mean by polis? 2: The birth of Athens and the roots of democracy 3: Draconian laws 4: Solonian laws 5: How tyranny helped the establishment of democracy 6: Cleisthenes and the birth of democracy 7: The Persian Wars and the link between democracy and the naval empire 8: Democracy and pentekontaeitia 9: Democracy and the effects of the Peloponnesian War 10: Democracy and the decline of the polis 11: Athenian democracy in the Hellenistic and Roman age Bibliography Index
An unrivalled collection of source material, often unavailable in translation, on the history and philosophy of the world's first democracy.