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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Biography of the Athenian politician whose reforms provided ordinary citizens with more equal say in the state formerly run only by the upper class.
Language: en
Pages: 382
Pages: 382
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations
Language: en
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Pages: 222
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolution