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This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Archives in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the beginnings of democracy in Athens, interpreted as the implementation of Cleisthenes' governmental reforms.

Table of Contents
Writing and the Athenian democracy (C. W. Hedrick); Representations of Athenian democracy in Attic document reliefs (C. Lawton); The birth of democracy (P. G. Calligas); Pottery, private life and politics (P. Shapiro); Personifications of democracy (O. Tzachou-Delmouzou); A court trial in Athens early in the 4th century B.C. (A. L. Boegehold); Oaths and oathtaking in ancient Athens (D. Peppa-Delmouzou); The political rhetoric of America's founders (J. Roberts); 19th-century photography in Athens (A. Szegedy-Maszak).

The Birth of Democracy

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      Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/12/1993
      ISBN13: 9780876619506, 978-0876619506
      ISBN10: 876619502

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Archives in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the beginnings of democracy in Athens, interpreted as the implementation of Cleisthenes' governmental reforms.

      Table of Contents
      Writing and the Athenian democracy (C. W. Hedrick); Representations of Athenian democracy in Attic document reliefs (C. Lawton); The birth of democracy (P. G. Calligas); Pottery, private life and politics (P. Shapiro); Personifications of democracy (O. Tzachou-Delmouzou); A court trial in Athens early in the 4th century B.C. (A. L. Boegehold); Oaths and oathtaking in ancient Athens (D. Peppa-Delmouzou); The political rhetoric of America's founders (J. Roberts); 19th-century photography in Athens (A. Szegedy-Maszak).

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