The Classical Athenian Democracy
- ISBN-10
- 0198146973
- ISBN-13
- 9780198146971
- Category
- Medical genetics
- Pages
- 201
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- David L. Stockton
Description
This critical study, designed for the modern reader, explains what the institutions of the classical Athenian democracy were, how they worked, and on what assumptions they were founded. Incorporating important recent work by historians, epigraphists, and archaeologists, Stockton traces thebroad development of the Athenian constitution from the reforms of Solon in the early sixth century to those of Ephialtes in the late 460s B.C., carefully examining the fully-developed democratic system of the post-Ephialtic period. Stockton translates all Greek terms and explains difficult essaysmaking the volume highly accessible to students of ancient and modern history, and to the general reader.
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