Democracy beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age

by Eric W. Robinson

• ISBN13: 9780521843317
• ISBN10: 0521843316
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-21
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes have been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy for which evidence is harder to come by has received only fleeting attention. Nevertheless, there exists a scattered body of ancient material regarding democracy beyond Athens, from ancient literary authors and epigraphic documents to archaeological evidence, out of which one can build an understanding of the phenomenon. This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves in ancient Greek city-states; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece in this period; and to further our understanding of the nature of ancient democracy by studying its practices beyond Athens.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Classical demokratiai on the Greek mainland (central Greece and the Peloponnese)	p. 6
Classical demokratiai in western and northwestern Greece (plus Cyrene)	p. 67
Classical demokratiai in eastern Greece	p. 137
The spread of democracy in the Classical period	p. 182
The nature of Classical democracy outside Athens	p. 217
Appendix	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 269
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