Publication

1999 - University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma

Language

English

Word Count

111,750 words, Guess

Page Count

447 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing441202
  • Library of Congress Control Number98046468
  • OCLC Control Number40074053
  • Better World Books9780806131436
  • Open LibraryOL383946M

Classifications

  • DDC321.8/0938/5
  • LCCJC75.D36 H3613 1999
  • LCCJC75.D36H3613 1999

Description

"The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. Hansen distinguishes between the city's seven political institutions: the Assembly, the nomothetai, the People's Court, the boards of magistrates, the Council of Five Hundred, the Areopagos, and ho boulomenos. He discusses how Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens. Equality was conceived of as an equality not of nature but of opportunity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • The Athenian democracy in the age of Demosthenes: structure, principles, and ideologyUniversity of Oklahoma Press1999-01-01

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