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 ...
Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) Athenian statesman, recognized as
... Leader of the democratic faction. From this point on (354), Demosthenes' career is virtually the history of Athenian foreign policy. It was not very long before his oratorical skill made him, in effect, the leader of what today might be called the democratic party. Some interests, especially the wea ...
... Leader of the democratic faction. From this point on (354), Demosthenes' career is virtually the history of Athenian foreign policy. It was not very long before his oratorical skill made him, in effect, the leader of what today might be called the democratic party. Some interests, especially the wea ...
Pericles Structured Essay
... its greatest under him’. He believed that he ‘could respect the liberty of the people, and at the same time, hold them in check. It was he who led them, rather than they who led him, and since he never sought power from any wrong motive, he was under no necessity of flattering them, in fact he was s ...
... its greatest under him’. He believed that he ‘could respect the liberty of the people, and at the same time, hold them in check. It was he who led them, rather than they who led him, and since he never sought power from any wrong motive, he was under no necessity of flattering them, in fact he was s ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
Menaldo - North American Business Press
... authority through his self-command and persuasive speech. As the leading citizen of his time, Pericles greatly affected the life of the average citizen in democratic Athens (Plutarch 2001, p. 204). Pericles’ character, public manner, intelligence, and rhetorical ability were all important to his pol ...
... authority through his self-command and persuasive speech. As the leading citizen of his time, Pericles greatly affected the life of the average citizen in democratic Athens (Plutarch 2001, p. 204). Pericles’ character, public manner, intelligence, and rhetorical ability were all important to his pol ...
Herodotus, Politics and Athenian Democracy
... that Athens was in danger of following the same path as the Persians (Forsdyke 2007, 231). Following the Persian defeat, Herodotus tells of malicious and cruel acts performed by several Athenian leaders. For instance, the Athenian army inflicts a terrible punishment upon Artaÿctes: they crucify him ...
... that Athens was in danger of following the same path as the Persians (Forsdyke 2007, 231). Following the Persian defeat, Herodotus tells of malicious and cruel acts performed by several Athenian leaders. For instance, the Athenian army inflicts a terrible punishment upon Artaÿctes: they crucify him ...
The Nosos of Athens: Disease and Healing in Sophocles
... feeling? Was Athens sick in a metaphorical sense by this point, having gotten over the worst of the physical malady, but still in need of a cure? The healing method used for an ailing individual seeking help at the temple of Asclepius involved a dream. Perhaps the healing of the city through poetry ...
... feeling? Was Athens sick in a metaphorical sense by this point, having gotten over the worst of the physical malady, but still in need of a cure? The healing method used for an ailing individual seeking help at the temple of Asclepius involved a dream. Perhaps the healing of the city through poetry ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
Introduction - Princeton University Press
... the past? Again, it is all a matter of balance. The present book favors an un-Cyclopean, two-eyed view founded upon a constant “toing and froing” between the present and the past. Provided it is kept under control, anachronism may have pedagogic or even heuristic virtues.3 The narrow path that I i ...
... the past? Again, it is all a matter of balance. The present book favors an un-Cyclopean, two-eyed view founded upon a constant “toing and froing” between the present and the past. Provided it is kept under control, anachronism may have pedagogic or even heuristic virtues.3 The narrow path that I i ...
The Athenian Decree for the N aturalisation of the Plataeans
... the copyist, it is still possible that Sac preserves the original reading here too. If so, Kat would have been added by a grammarian who intended to give a continuous flow to the text at this point. In addition, the formulas expected in a decree of this type are lacking. 9 The condition of uvopayu6i ...
... the copyist, it is still possible that Sac preserves the original reading here too. If so, Kat would have been added by a grammarian who intended to give a continuous flow to the text at this point. In addition, the formulas expected in a decree of this type are lacking. 9 The condition of uvopayu6i ...
PERICLEAN IMPERIAL POLICY AND THE MYTILENEAN DEBATE
... be hateful and offensive has ever been at the time the fate of those who have aspired to empire'. Here there seems to be complete identification of the Athenians with 'those aspiring to empire'. So subtle has this aspiration to empire been that Dienelt fails to see any imperial policy on the part of ...
... be hateful and offensive has ever been at the time the fate of those who have aspired to empire'. Here there seems to be complete identification of the Athenians with 'those aspiring to empire'. So subtle has this aspiration to empire been that Dienelt fails to see any imperial policy on the part of ...
Friends and Enemies in Athenian Politics Author(s): Lynette G
... political groups might pursue the same policy, but still try to attack each other.20For example, Eubulus and Aristophon were generally political opponents (Dem. 18.162), but could still sometimes pursue the same or similar policies (Dem. 18.70, 162). In addition, a law passed probablyin the early fo ...
... political groups might pursue the same policy, but still try to attack each other.20For example, Eubulus and Aristophon were generally political opponents (Dem. 18.162), but could still sometimes pursue the same or similar policies (Dem. 18.70, 162). In addition, a law passed probablyin the early fo ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
Thucydides and the invention of political science
... “Thucydidean technical experts” (and as these agent-experts themselves are changed through their own formation within evolving social structures) the sort of expertise that Thucydides’ unchanging text could offer must eventually become dated and thereby irrelevant. This is because the system cannot ...
... “Thucydidean technical experts” (and as these agent-experts themselves are changed through their own formation within evolving social structures) the sort of expertise that Thucydides’ unchanging text could offer must eventually become dated and thereby irrelevant. This is because the system cannot ...
The Date of the Callias Decrees
... follow rigorously the emphatic instructions of the Demos (1.45).16 The Athenians would take what they could get-an enviable ally who might otherwise become a dangerous enemy (1.44.2)-and, certainly, the risk of war was "serious." But it was serious in a sense different from what we have been meaning ...
... follow rigorously the emphatic instructions of the Demos (1.45).16 The Athenians would take what they could get-an enviable ally who might otherwise become a dangerous enemy (1.44.2)-and, certainly, the risk of war was "serious." But it was serious in a sense different from what we have been meaning ...
tyrannicides, symposium and history
... I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle bough, As Harmodius and Aristogeiton did, When they laid the tyrant low, And to Athens gave equality. 1 ...
... I'll wreathe my sword in myrtle bough, As Harmodius and Aristogeiton did, When they laid the tyrant low, And to Athens gave equality. 1 ...
Background - courtneyljohnson
... statues of Hermes--and while in Sparta had proposed to that state's leaders that he help them defeat Athens.) Critias, first among an oligarchy known as the "Thirty Tyrants," led the second bloody revolt against the restored Athenian democracy in 404. The revolt sent many of Athens’ leading democra ...
... statues of Hermes--and while in Sparta had proposed to that state's leaders that he help them defeat Athens.) Critias, first among an oligarchy known as the "Thirty Tyrants," led the second bloody revolt against the restored Athenian democracy in 404. The revolt sent many of Athens’ leading democra ...
Pericles - crazygirltbs
... During the Pelopennisian war Pericles made a speech for the dead. “When Athenian soldiers were killed in war Pericles gave a noble speech to show his ‘view of democracy.’ In his speech he said, ‘Everyone is equal before law, what counts in public service is not membership of a particular class, but ...
... During the Pelopennisian war Pericles made a speech for the dead. “When Athenian soldiers were killed in war Pericles gave a noble speech to show his ‘view of democracy.’ In his speech he said, ‘Everyone is equal before law, what counts in public service is not membership of a particular class, but ...
Thuc. 8.25-27 - The Ancient History Bulletin
... life did everything it could to weaken the strength of the Empire, and reduce Athens to a mere compliant follower of its enemy, Sparta. Yet, despite the almost unanimous agreement in other sources,1 Phrynichus is presented in Thucydides (the present case under examination included) in an objective, ...
... life did everything it could to weaken the strength of the Empire, and reduce Athens to a mere compliant follower of its enemy, Sparta. Yet, despite the almost unanimous agreement in other sources,1 Phrynichus is presented in Thucydides (the present case under examination included) in an objective, ...
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Athenian Thought
... holder of a superior understanding of the polis, inherited from Euripidean tragedy, could be put; they also position the kings they use in a curious space between myth and history. ...
... holder of a superior understanding of the polis, inherited from Euripidean tragedy, could be put; they also position the kings they use in a curious space between myth and history. ...
Trial of Socrates
... people that limited many of the rights and freedoms of the Athenian people. Athenians eventually overthrew the Thirty Tyrants and took back their city in 403 BC and democracy was restored. But after the war, Athens was only a shadow of its former greatness. Some of the citizens now feel uneasy about ...
... people that limited many of the rights and freedoms of the Athenian people. Athenians eventually overthrew the Thirty Tyrants and took back their city in 403 BC and democracy was restored. But after the war, Athens was only a shadow of its former greatness. Some of the citizens now feel uneasy about ...
Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology
... of the fabulous" (epi to muthodes eknenikekota). This last phrase introduces the idea of a contest. Thucydides locates the quasi-historical accounts of poets and (other) writers of logoi in the context of a tournament of words; the victor's reward is public acclaim and the easy belief of the gullibl ...
... of the fabulous" (epi to muthodes eknenikekota). This last phrase introduces the idea of a contest. Thucydides locates the quasi-historical accounts of poets and (other) writers of logoi in the context of a tournament of words; the victor's reward is public acclaim and the easy belief of the gullibl ...
Thucydides and Civil War: the Case of Alcibiades
... glory-seeking. Pericles was emphatic. The glory of Athens is not the glory of Greece but the “luster of your name” that comes with empire-- a “tyranny” he eventually calls it, not least by conquering other Greeks. “We have no need of Homer’s praises. . ., everywhere we have established eternal monum ...
... glory-seeking. Pericles was emphatic. The glory of Athens is not the glory of Greece but the “luster of your name” that comes with empire-- a “tyranny” he eventually calls it, not least by conquering other Greeks. “We have no need of Homer’s praises. . ., everywhere we have established eternal monum ...
Akroterion 47 (2002) 5-15 EURIPIDES` BACCHAE IN ITS
... culture and charm of the old style leaders. But it was not just extremist rhetoric that broke down the consensus in society: clearly the failure of Athenian strategies in the war created or exacerbated divisions. This led to two effective coups d’état, when democracy was set aside and replaced by ol ...
... culture and charm of the old style leaders. But it was not just extremist rhetoric that broke down the consensus in society: clearly the failure of Athenian strategies in the war created or exacerbated divisions. This led to two effective coups d’état, when democracy was set aside and replaced by ol ...
the classical agora
... administration; the old Bouleuterion to provide a meeting place for the members of the new Senate and Building F to accommodate the archons. These new buildings in the Agora were intended for governmental use and represent the consolidation of a democratic polis. While the old Bouleuterion suggests ...
... administration; the old Bouleuterion to provide a meeting place for the members of the new Senate and Building F to accommodate the archons. These new buildings in the Agora were intended for governmental use and represent the consolidation of a democratic polis. While the old Bouleuterion suggests ...