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the foundations for a new kind of political system. Thisdemokratia, as it became known, was a direct democracy that gave political power to free male Athenian citizens rather than a ruling aristocratic class or dictator, which had largely been the norm in Athens for several hundred years before...
How is government in the United States today different from government in ancient Athens? How did the Peloponnesian War affect democracy in Greece? How can classical ancient political thought help us to improve our understanding of modern democracy?
OWS, emphasise some features of Athenian direct democracy, making decisions collectively at open public assemblies — although their consensus-based decision-making puts a much greater emphasis on debate and deliberation than Athenian democracy did.Lucie Laurian...
JOSIAH OBER 5 How to Criticize Democracy in Late Fifth-and Fourth-Century Athens Some twenty-five hundred years after the revolution that made it possible, democracy is widely regarded as the most attractive form of practical (as opposed to utopian) political organization yet devised. Among democra...
As thekingdid not pay the governor's salary, theroyal-appointed governorinstructed theHouse of Burgessesto provide his funding. As long as they paid that, he did not mind them discussing other issues and otherwise functioning largely on their own. ...
“tyrants” were the reformers, and their idea was: we’re going to redistribute the land and cancel the debts. That’s what the tyrants did. Solon of Athens only canceled the personal debts. He didn’t redistribute the land, and that made the Athenian population so resentful that Solon ...
It’s been eight years now, and I feel completely at home in Athens. Last Christmas, someone asked “Are you going home for Christmas?” wondering if I planned to travel back to the U.S. The question actually confused me, and I turned and said “I am home.” Is a Move Abroad ...
How long did Athenian democracy last? How did Herodotus depict the Spartans? What type of government did Athens have before democracy? In ancient Greece, how was the polis governed? Who overthrew the Athenian democracy? How did Herodotus explain the rise of Cyrus? What year did Solon establish...
This prompt essentially boils down to its last sentence—how has your lived experience shaped you? Now, that is an incredibly open-ended question, which you could use as a road into just about any topic. That freedom, combined with a pretty long word count, means that the brainstorming ...