The Classical Athenian Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780198721369 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 224 str.

David Stockton

Opis

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 the broad 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 essays making the volume highly accessible to students of ancient and modern history, and to the general reader.

Recenzje

'David Stockton's concise hadnbook will be most welcome to both the "student of ancient history and the educated and interested public" who may want a shorter survey. It provides a generally successful, if highly conventional overview of the institutions of Athenian democracy. It will be especially useful in making accessible to the general reader recent work by historians, archaeologists, and epigraphists which has exposed the workings of Athenian democracy more clearly.' Lisa Kallet-Marx, Journal of the History of Ideas, 55:1, 3/94