Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and indexes.
Contents
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.
Summary
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.
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