Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Athenian Democracy / P. J. Rhodes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World : ERAWPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780748616862
  • 9781474471985
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.938509014 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- General Introduction -- PART I Political Institutions -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Athenian Citizenship: The Descent Group and the Alternatives -- 2 How Did the Athenian Ecclesia Vote? -- 3 Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the Courts -- 4 Jury Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens -- 5 Capital Punishment -- PART II Political Activity -- Introduction to Part II -- 6 Athenian Demagogues -- 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens -- 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens -- 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens -- PART III Moments in History -- Introduction to Part III -- 10 How a Political Myth Takes Shape: Solon, 'Founding Father' of the Athenian Democracy -- 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy -- 12 Cleisthenes and Attica -- 13 Ephialtes, Eisangelia, and the Council -- PART IV A View of Democracy -- Introduction to Part IV -- 14 The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History -- Intellectual Chronology -- Guide to Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the direct government of the people by the people. Liberty meant above all freedom of speech, the right to be heard in the public assembly and the right to speak one's mind in private. Equality meant the equal right of the male citizens (perhaps 60,000 in the fifth century, 30,000 in the fourth) to participate in the government of the state and the administration of the law. Disapproved of as mob rule until the nineteenth century, the institutions of Athenian democracy have become an inspiration for modern democratic politics and political philosophy. P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice. Part I is devoted to political institutions: citizenship, the assembly, the law-courts, and capital punishment. Part II explores aspects of political activity: the demagogues and their relationship with the assembly, the manoeuvrings of the politicians, competitive festivals, and the separation of public from private life. Part III looks at three crucial points in the development of the democracy: the reforms of Solon, Cleisthenes and Ephialtes. Part IV considers what it was in Greek life that led to the development of democracy. Some of the authors adopt broad-brush approaches to major questions; others analyse a particular body of evidence in detail. Use is made of archaeology, comparison with other societies, the location of festivals in their civic context, and the need to penetrate behind what the classical Athenians made of their past.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781474471985

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- General Introduction -- PART I Political Institutions -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Athenian Citizenship: The Descent Group and the Alternatives -- 2 How Did the Athenian Ecclesia Vote? -- 3 Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the Courts -- 4 Jury Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens -- 5 Capital Punishment -- PART II Political Activity -- Introduction to Part II -- 6 Athenian Demagogues -- 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens -- 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens -- 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens -- PART III Moments in History -- Introduction to Part III -- 10 How a Political Myth Takes Shape: Solon, 'Founding Father' of the Athenian Democracy -- 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy -- 12 Cleisthenes and Attica -- 13 Ephialtes, Eisangelia, and the Council -- PART IV A View of Democracy -- Introduction to Part IV -- 14 The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History -- Intellectual Chronology -- Guide to Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the direct government of the people by the people. Liberty meant above all freedom of speech, the right to be heard in the public assembly and the right to speak one's mind in private. Equality meant the equal right of the male citizens (perhaps 60,000 in the fifth century, 30,000 in the fourth) to participate in the government of the state and the administration of the law. Disapproved of as mob rule until the nineteenth century, the institutions of Athenian democracy have become an inspiration for modern democratic politics and political philosophy. P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice. Part I is devoted to political institutions: citizenship, the assembly, the law-courts, and capital punishment. Part II explores aspects of political activity: the demagogues and their relationship with the assembly, the manoeuvrings of the politicians, competitive festivals, and the separation of public from private life. Part III looks at three crucial points in the development of the democracy: the reforms of Solon, Cleisthenes and Ephialtes. Part IV considers what it was in Greek life that led to the development of democracy. Some of the authors adopt broad-brush approaches to major questions; others analyse a particular body of evidence in detail. Use is made of archaeology, comparison with other societies, the location of festivals in their civic context, and the need to penetrate behind what the classical Athenians made of their past.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)