From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law
Subtitle: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 21, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780520067981
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Political structures: democracy; Social history; Ancient - Greece; Ancient Greece - History; History - General History; Literature: Classics; Ancient Greece; Constitutional; Legal History; History / Ancient / General
First sentence: Since time immemorial the political leadership of Attica had been in the hands of men whose claim to social prominence rested on a combination of landed wealth with membership in old and distinguished families and clans.