Title Origins of democracy in ancient Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace ; with chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 242 pages).
Series	Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature
	Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- "People's power" and egalitarian trends in archaic Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert W. Wallace -- Revolutions and a new order in solonian Athens and archaic Greece / Robert W. Wallace -- "I besieged that man" : democracy's revolutionary start / Josiah Ober -- The breakthrough of dēmokratia in mid-fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Democracy, origins of : contribution to a debate / Paul Cartledge -- Power to the people / Cynthia Farrar.
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Summary	The contributors to this text present a debate about the origins of Athenian democracy. The result is a stimulating critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing topic.
Subject	Democracy -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
	Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
	Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
	Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
	HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
	Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
	Greece -- Athens. (OCoLC)fst01204474
Chronological Term	To 1500
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Ober, Josiah.
	Wallace, Robert W., 1950-
Other Form:	Print version: Raaflaub, Kurt A. Origins of democracy in ancient Greece. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 0520245628 9780520245624 (DLC) 2006026246 (OCoLC)70884982
ISBN	9780520932173 (electronic bk.)
	052093217X (electronic bk.)

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