The Origins and Development of Ancient Greek

In the Archaic Era of Greek history the aristocratic control of government was undermined by the increasing wealth and internal security of the city-states. Democracy was one of many new forms of government to emerge, and until the fifth century a wide variety of models of democratic government were tried, before the form of democracy found in Athens became the model on which newly established democracies founded their constitutions. In The Origins and Development of Ancient Greek Democracy, James L. O'Neil examines the origins of democracy in Ancient Greece, not only in Athens, but also in other Greek states including Syracuse, Rhodes, and the Hellenistic Federal states, and traces its development into the most common form of government found in Greece by the mid-fourth century.

James L. O'Neil is senior lecturer in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Background to Democracy	p. 5
Tyrannies and Sparta; Solonian Athens; Other Sixth-Century Democracies; Kleisthenic Athens; Early Fifth-Century Democracies
The Spread of Democracy in the Fifth-Century	p. 37
Elis and Chios; Restored Democracies; Mantineia; Athenian Allies; Boiotian Equal Oligarchy
The Development of Final Democracy	p. 57
Nature of Final Democracy; Reforms of Ephialtes and Perikles; Working of Final Democracy; Corcyra; Failure of Final Democracy
Democracy in the Fourth Century	p. 79
The First Oligarchic Revival; Syracuse; Retreat from Democracy; Democracy Revives in the Homeland; More Efficient Government; Thebes; Arkadia; Other Cities; The Second Oligarchic Revival
Hellenistic Democracy	p. 103
Hellenistic Athens; Other Hellenistic Democracies; Political Elites; Participation in Democracies
Democracy in Federal States	p. 121
Democracy in Widespread States; The Major Leagues; The Assembly; The Nature of Federal Democracies
Conclusions	p. 135
Bibliography	p. 139
Appendix 1. Tribal Reforms in Ancient Greece: Kleisthenic Tribal System; Other Geographically Based Tribes; Other Types of Tribal Reform	p. 161
Appendix 2. State Pay	p. 177
Appendix 3. Aristotle's Classification of Democracies	p. 181
Index	p. 185
About the Author	p. 189
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