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The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology.(Brief Article)
The Historian
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March 22, 1993|
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Few ancient societies, or states have been the focus of such intensive scrutiny by modern scholars as the Athenian city-state and democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. However anomalous the Athenian system of government was among its contemporaries and rivals, it has come to symbolize in the popular imagination of the West what was truly best in "the glory that was Greece." In this wide-ranging study Mogens Herman Hansen offers an impressive survey of the Athenian democracy in the period 403-322 B.C., an era notable both for the significant changes within the ...
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