Democracy+Articles

=Introduction to Athenian Democracy= The Packet == The Powerpoint =Ancients Writers on Governments= toc Aristotle, Book 4 of Politics

Polybius on Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Democracy

Marshall Davies Lloyd: Polybius and the Founding Fathers

Plutarch on Monarchy, Democracy, and Oligarchy

Greek and Roman Concepts of Power =Modern Writers on Governments=

Democracy and Values
David Barton (Fundamentalist Christian) on Republic v. Democracy

Mark Thoma on Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations", in consideration of Barton's claims

Richard Dawkins, an evangelical atheist, on morality and the bible

Article on Corporate Social Responsibility compared to Athenian LIturgies

Democracy and Speech
Keith Werhan, The Classical Ancestry of American Freedom of Speech, on the democracy of speaking First two sections most important, on terms isegoria, isonomia, parrhesia

Theory of Democracy
Summary of Robert Dahl's ideas on democracy

Robert Dahl On Democracy, excerpts

Robert Dahl, "What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?"

=Ancient Athenian Democracy= John Rothchild's "Introduction to Athenian Democracy of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE"

Christopher W. Blackwell: "Athenian Democracy: a brief overview" from Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy

Chart of Athenian Democracy



Wikipedia Chart

Map of Attica

Literature
Alcaeus and Solon on the State, and Frederick Douglass

On Eunomia: Pindar Olympian 9 and Solon

On Themis: Pindar Olympian 13

The character of the Athenians and their self-characterization From Thucydides

Pericles Funeral Oration

Lincoln Gettysburg Address

History, Wars, and the Ecclesia
Brief History of Ancient Greece

List of Wars Involving Greece from Wikipedia

Proto-Democratic Assembly in Homer's //the Iliad// Description of ideal city, Shield of Achilles in book 18 of //The Iliad// Rhetoric (public speaking): Ring Speeches and Classical Rhetoric in //The Iliad// Book 9, Embassy to Achilles, in //The Iliad//

On the Assembly and Law

Themistocles Decree on Abandoning Athens

On Pericles' handling of the Assembly