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Athēnaiōn politeia  

P. J. Rhodes

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law, Philosophy
*Aristotle is credited with works on the constitutions of 158 states: a papyrus containing all but the opening few pages of the Athenian constitution was acquired by the British Museum, and was ... More

Common Peace  

Timothy Thomas Bennett Ryder

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
Common Peace (κοινὴ εἰρήνη), the phrase used by *Diodorus (3) Siculus, following *Ephorus, and by some contemporaries (though not by *Demosthenes (2), *Isocrates, or *Xenophon (1)) to ... More

democracy, Athenian  

M. H. Hansen

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
Athenian democracy from 508/7 to 322/1 bce is the best known example in history of a ‘direct’ democracy as opposed to a ‘representative’ or ‘parliamentary’ form of democracy.Today democracy is ... More

democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical  

Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
Democracy or people's power (see demos) was not an Athenian monopoly or even invention. (See democracy, Athenian.) The Archaic Spartan constitutional document (rhētra) preserved in Plutarch Lycurgus ... More

Demosthenes(2), Athenian orator, 384–322 BCE  

George Law Cawkwell

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law, Greek Literature
The greatest Athenian orator. When Demosthenes was 7 years old his father died, leaving the management of his estate to his brothers, Aphobus and Demophon, and a friend, Therippides. The trustees ... More

dokimasia  

P. J. Rhodes

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
The term δοκιμασία and the related verb dokimazein were used in various Greek contexts to denote a procedure of examining or testing, and approving or validating as a result of the test.1 For Athens, ... More

Draco  

D. M. MacDowell

Online publication date:
Dec 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
Draco, according to Athenian tradition, was a lawgiver who introduced new laws in the year when Aristaechmus was archon (see archontes), probably 621/0 bce. This was the first time that Athenian laws ... More

Lycurgus (3), of Boutadai, Athenian orator and politician, c. 390–c. 325/324 BCE  

S. D. Lambert

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
Lycurgus was one of the ten canonical Attic orators and an influential politician who worked energetically for the regeneration of Athens after the battle of Chaeronea (338) until his death, a period ... More

papyrology, Greek  

H. Maehler

Online publication date:
Mar 2016
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law, Greek Literature, Greek Material Culture: Classical and Hellenistic
Papyrus, manufactured in Egypt since c.3000 bce from a marsh plant, Cyperus papyrus (see books, greek and roman), was the most widely used writing material in the Graeco-Roman world. The object of ... More

polis  

Oswyn Murray

Online publication date:
Jul 2015
Subject:
Greek History and Historiography, Greek Law
Polis (pl. poleis), the Greek city-state. The polis is the characteristic form of Greek urban life; its main features are small size, political *autonomy, social homogeneity, sense of community and ... More

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