Democracy beyond Athens
Subtitle: popular government in Greek classical age
By: Eric W. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521843317
Subjects: Politics and government; Democracy; History
Description: "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 (480-323 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 1. Classical demokratiai on the Greek mainland (central Greece and the Peloponnese); title: 2. Classical demokratiai in Western and Northwestern Greece (plus Cyrene); title: 3. Classical demokratiai in Eastern Greece; title: 4. The spread of democracy in the Classical period; title: 5. The nature of Classical democracy outside Athens.