Direct democracy in historical perspective; evidence; the Athenian Constitution down to 403 BC; Athens as city state and as democracy; the peoples of Athens; the assembly of the people; the laws and the Nomothetai; the people's court; the Magistrates; the Council of Five Hundred; the political leaders; the Council of the Areopagos; the character of Athenian Democracy.
Mogens Herman Hansen is Reader in Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen. He was visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 1974, of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1983, and of Churchhill College, Cambridge, in 1990. His books include Sovereignty of the People's Court in Athens (1974), Demography and Democracy (1985) and the Athenian Assembly in the Age of Demosthenes (1987).
"The most comprehensive and detailed account of the workings of the Athenian democracy by its most authoritative and knowledgeable historian. Aristotle would have been well pleased." Times Literary Supplement "An excellent book." The Classical Review "Truly original works that change the focus of a well-established field of study are rare. Hansen's book is such a work." Social & Behavioral Sciences
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