The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens

The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens
ISBN-10
3515069518
ISBN-13
9783515069519
Category
History
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag
Author
Eric W. Robinson

Description

Athens is often considered to have been the birth place of democracy but there were many democracies in Greece during the Archaic and Classical periods and this is a study of the other democratic states. Robinson begins by discussing ancient and modern definitions of democracy, he then examines Greek terminology, investigates the evidence for other early democratic states and draws conclusions about its emergence.

Similar books