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Raaflaub, Kurt A.

Origins of democracy in ancient Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace ; with chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xi, 242 p. ; 24 cm. - Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-223) and indexes.

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.

ISBN: 0520245628 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520245624 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006026246

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA678497 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013552464 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Democracy--History--Greece--To 1500.
Democracy--History--Greece--Athens--To 1500.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: JC75.D36 / R33 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 320.938/5