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Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title page 5 Copyright information 6 Table of contents 7 Acknowledgements 11 List of abbreviations 13 Introduction 15 1 The History and Structure of Athenian Democracy 23 Athens – A Special Case in the Greek World 23 Solon, the Legislator 24 The Tyranny of the Peisistratids 25 The Reforms of Cleisthenes 26 Ostracism 28 The Road to Complete Democracy 31 Citizens, Metics and Slaves 37 The New Approach to Allies and the Leading Role of Pericles 44 The Popular Assembly and the Council of 500 47 The Magistracies 53 The Process of Political Decision Making 56 The Financing of Public Tasks 63 Jury Courts 65 The Crises during the Later Phases of the Peloponnesian War 76 Legislation and the ‘Judicial Review’ 79 Developments in the Later Fourth Century 85 Democracy without Theory or Mission 88 2 The Reception of Ancient Constitutional Theory 93 Ancient Constitutional Categories 96 The Reception of Aristotle and Civic Humanism 99 Mixed Constitution, Ephors, Tribunes and New Republicanism 103 Alternatives to Aristotelianism 112 Variants of the Social Contract 114 3 Ancient Democracy and Social Backwardness 119 Republic and Territorial State 120 A Military or a Commercial S

Author

Wilfried Nippel

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EN