16 page pdf - The Stoa Consortium
... Cimon and emistocles stood trial before the Court of the Areopagus, and these trials provide an interesting background to Ephialtes’ reforms. By , while the Persians had been mostly driven from the Aegean sea, they remained in the Chersonese, a peninsula in the northern Aegean, and allied th ...
... Cimon and emistocles stood trial before the Court of the Areopagus, and these trials provide an interesting background to Ephialtes’ reforms. By , while the Persians had been mostly driven from the Aegean sea, they remained in the Chersonese, a peninsula in the northern Aegean, and allied th ...
1 Susan Lape Work in Progress Before Race: Theorizing Athenian
... Athenians used patronymics, taking their last name from their fathers’ first name. After Cleisthenes, citizens were to be named “x of deme y,” although in reality deme names coexisted with, rather than replaced, patronymics. xxix The change in nomenclature is often linked to the tradition that Cleis ...
... Athenians used patronymics, taking their last name from their fathers’ first name. After Cleisthenes, citizens were to be named “x of deme y,” although in reality deme names coexisted with, rather than replaced, patronymics. xxix The change in nomenclature is often linked to the tradition that Cleis ...
Sample Historical Text Analysis: Pericles`s Funeral Oration
... the usage of ethos (or his credibility as a general), he specifically mentioned key evidence to assert Athena’s military prowess. Pericles stated that “At Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger,” where he showed that even with enemies using fu ...
... the usage of ethos (or his credibility as a general), he specifically mentioned key evidence to assert Athena’s military prowess. Pericles stated that “At Athens we live exactly as we please, and yet just as ready to encounter every legitimate danger,” where he showed that even with enemies using fu ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SOCIAL SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY Casey B. Mulligan Ricard Gil
... family activities and, unless family activities themselves depend on the process by which public decisions are made, do not offer a prediction as to how Social Security might be different in democracies and nondemocracies. Diamond and Mirrlees (1978) and Merton (1983) describe Social Security as opt ...
... family activities and, unless family activities themselves depend on the process by which public decisions are made, do not offer a prediction as to how Social Security might be different in democracies and nondemocracies. Diamond and Mirrlees (1978) and Merton (1983) describe Social Security as opt ...
tyrannicides, symposium and history
... for the sympotic performance of denigration of the tyrannicides, and thus for the enactment of a law restricting such song? As already noted, the one reference we have to the law is a passing mention by Hyperides in a speech of c. 337 BCE; nothing he says hints that the law was a new creation, but h ...
... for the sympotic performance of denigration of the tyrannicides, and thus for the enactment of a law restricting such song? As already noted, the one reference we have to the law is a passing mention by Hyperides in a speech of c. 337 BCE; nothing he says hints that the law was a new creation, but h ...
Consociational Democracy: The Views of Arend Lijphart and
... scientists was challenged by the young Dutch Arend Lijphart. In 1968 he published his The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in The Netherlands. Both within the country and elsewhere (thanks to the English edition) the work was highly acclaimed. Its success was due, in large part, to ...
... scientists was challenged by the young Dutch Arend Lijphart. In 1968 he published his The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in The Netherlands. Both within the country and elsewhere (thanks to the English edition) the work was highly acclaimed. Its success was due, in large part, to ...
Political Polupragmones: Busybody Athenians, Meddlesome
... mass participation by non-elites was widespread and embedded in Athens’ political culture in the fourth century B.C.11 For modern scholars, the Athenian experience raises important questions about representation (or the lack thereof), political expertise, and civic culture, which can inform debate a ...
... mass participation by non-elites was widespread and embedded in Athens’ political culture in the fourth century B.C.11 For modern scholars, the Athenian experience raises important questions about representation (or the lack thereof), political expertise, and civic culture, which can inform debate a ...
Lycon - Gocathedral
... Became known as 30 tyrants Passed a law that they could put to death and confiscate the property of anyone included on their list of 3000 citizens ...
... Became known as 30 tyrants Passed a law that they could put to death and confiscate the property of anyone included on their list of 3000 citizens ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
... another city-state for possession of the nearby island of Salamis. Above all, Solon had the reputation of being moderate in his views. Solon blamed much of the turmoil in Athens on the greed of the aristocratic estate owners. He charged they were about "to destroy a great city by their thoughtlessne ...
Abstract
... A Balanced Approach to the Depiction of Themistocles in Herodotus For the past several decades, scholars have taken a number of different approaches to the treatment of Themistocles within Herodotus’ Histories. Some have seen Themistocles as acting out of self-interest and in this way personifying A ...
... A Balanced Approach to the Depiction of Themistocles in Herodotus For the past several decades, scholars have taken a number of different approaches to the treatment of Themistocles within Herodotus’ Histories. Some have seen Themistocles as acting out of self-interest and in this way personifying A ...
Pericles with the enemy. In the 4B0s a number
... By the middle of the Sth century Athens had become a radical democrac¡ in which sovereignt¡ or ultimate control over state affairs, rested with the masses. The Athenians, through the initiatives of reformers such as Kleisthenes, Ephialtes and Pericles, had transferred the bulk of their political dec ...
... By the middle of the Sth century Athens had become a radical democrac¡ in which sovereignt¡ or ultimate control over state affairs, rested with the masses. The Athenians, through the initiatives of reformers such as Kleisthenes, Ephialtes and Pericles, had transferred the bulk of their political dec ...
Cleisthenes
... sought help from his father-in-law, the tyrant of Megara, and staged a coupe around 632 B.C. But the uprising was an unsuccessful one. Knowing that defeat was imminent, Cylon and his supporters took refuge in the temple of Athena. After they got the assurance that their lives would be spared, they c ...
... sought help from his father-in-law, the tyrant of Megara, and staged a coupe around 632 B.C. But the uprising was an unsuccessful one. Knowing that defeat was imminent, Cylon and his supporters took refuge in the temple of Athena. After they got the assurance that their lives would be spared, they c ...
Athens – The Incidental Democracy
... Around 600 B.C., Athens was ruled by a birth aristocracy. Some 150 years later, the citystate was a “democracy”. A rational-actor perspective, as perceived in the new institutional economics, sheds additional light on this intriguing transformation by focussing our attention on the incentives of ind ...
... Around 600 B.C., Athens was ruled by a birth aristocracy. Some 150 years later, the citystate was a “democracy”. A rational-actor perspective, as perceived in the new institutional economics, sheds additional light on this intriguing transformation by focussing our attention on the incentives of ind ...
Preview - American Economic Association
... We examine these tradeoffs in the context of the institutions established by the first largescale democracies, those of ancient Greece. At a time when Greece’s rivals were ruled by kings or emperors, Greek poleis (city-states) experienced remarkable economic growth over a period of several centuries ...
... We examine these tradeoffs in the context of the institutions established by the first largescale democracies, those of ancient Greece. At a time when Greece’s rivals were ruled by kings or emperors, Greek poleis (city-states) experienced remarkable economic growth over a period of several centuries ...
Honoring Solon
... Political privilege was given according to these divisions. This system allowed all citizens to participate in the General Assembly, which passed laws and elected officials. Solon’s reforms clearly gave more people a voice in the government and began to move Athens toward an early form of democracy. ...
... Political privilege was given according to these divisions. This system allowed all citizens to participate in the General Assembly, which passed laws and elected officials. Solon’s reforms clearly gave more people a voice in the government and began to move Athens toward an early form of democracy. ...
28 page pdf - The Stoa Consortium
... Fih and Fourth Centuries BCE: images of historical individuals S Most portraits of individuals from Classical Greece are best known through copies of the Greek originals, created in late Hellenistic and Roman times, when it became popular to decorate domestic spaces with Greek art works and c ...
... Fih and Fourth Centuries BCE: images of historical individuals S Most portraits of individuals from Classical Greece are best known through copies of the Greek originals, created in late Hellenistic and Roman times, when it became popular to decorate domestic spaces with Greek art works and c ...
6.3 Solon`s Reform
... encouraged them to sue, to bring charges and accusations both civil and criminal, on the idea that this is how you learn to use power, how you made magistrates (地方法官, 治安官) afraid of ordinary citizen, by bringing them upon charges, and so Solon laid the bases which some later thinkers such as Plato a ...
... encouraged them to sue, to bring charges and accusations both civil and criminal, on the idea that this is how you learn to use power, how you made magistrates (地方法官, 治安官) afraid of ordinary citizen, by bringing them upon charges, and so Solon laid the bases which some later thinkers such as Plato a ...
Socrates δημοτικός: Xenophon`s Socrates and the Athenian Elites
... beneficial are least likely to be violent (Mem. 1.2.10). Indeed Xenophon’s Socrates shows remarkable trust in the decision-making of the δῆμος. In a conversation with the captain Nichomachides, Socrates defends the δῆμος for choosing an οἰκονομικός as general, rather than someone with military expe ...
... beneficial are least likely to be violent (Mem. 1.2.10). Indeed Xenophon’s Socrates shows remarkable trust in the decision-making of the δῆμος. In a conversation with the captain Nichomachides, Socrates defends the δῆμος for choosing an οἰκονομικός as general, rather than someone with military expe ...
A-level Classical Civilisation Mark scheme Unit 01B
... after initial in-principle decision in assembly, ostracism gave power to whole demos to exile for 10 years prominent leader of their choice in theoretically secret ballot, subject to quorum of 6000; gave people weapon against potential tyrants and means of re ...
... after initial in-principle decision in assembly, ostracism gave power to whole demos to exile for 10 years prominent leader of their choice in theoretically secret ballot, subject to quorum of 6000; gave people weapon against potential tyrants and means of re ...
CLEISTHENES BRINGS DEMOCRACY TO ATHENS
... the people, especially the aristocrats, to be responsible for their city, not just themselves. Solon's ideas were, however, ahead of their time and the ordinary people still had little political influence. Their main role in the politics of the city was to act as the supporters of their aristocratic ...
... the people, especially the aristocrats, to be responsible for their city, not just themselves. Solon's ideas were, however, ahead of their time and the ordinary people still had little political influence. Their main role in the politics of the city was to act as the supporters of their aristocratic ...
End /Abolition of Monarchy - Ulster Institutional Repository
... into the following categories: (a) 500 members of the Council of the Five Hundred. The Council (Boule), set up by Cleisthenes, prepared the agenda for the Assembly, was responsible for the day-today administration of the state and oversaw the implementation of the various projects approved by the A ...
... into the following categories: (a) 500 members of the Council of the Five Hundred. The Council (Boule), set up by Cleisthenes, prepared the agenda for the Assembly, was responsible for the day-today administration of the state and oversaw the implementation of the various projects approved by the A ...
Cleisthenes - VIP-Spelling
... sought help from his father-in-law, the tyrant of Megara, and staged a coupe around 632 B.C. But the uprising was an unsuccessful one. Knowing that defeat was imminent, Cylon and his supporters took refuge in the temple of Athena. After they got the assurance that their lives would be spared, they c ...
... sought help from his father-in-law, the tyrant of Megara, and staged a coupe around 632 B.C. But the uprising was an unsuccessful one. Knowing that defeat was imminent, Cylon and his supporters took refuge in the temple of Athena. After they got the assurance that their lives would be spared, they c ...
Athenian Democracy: a brief overview
... mile journey to downtown Athens and back. In the th century we can estimate the adult male population of Athens, and thus the number of men eligible to participate in an Assembly, to have been , – ,, and in the th century, , – ,. But the number of Athenians in attendance at ...
... mile journey to downtown Athens and back. In the th century we can estimate the adult male population of Athens, and thus the number of men eligible to participate in an Assembly, to have been , – ,, and in the th century, , – ,. But the number of Athenians in attendance at ...
Direct democracy
Direct democracy (also known as pure democracy) is a form of democracy in which people decide (e.g. vote on, form consensus on) policy initiatives directly. This differs from the majority of modern Western-style democracies, which are indirect democracies.