This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of

The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the perio

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

Twenty-five hundred years ago a small Mediterranean community devised a new civic order; the community was Athens and the civic order became democracy. Over alm

This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration