10 Things You Should Know About Democracy in Ancient Greece

Professor Paul Cartledge AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College,

Cambridge, AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus,

University of Cambridge

Democracy: a life

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Law of Eucrates

Demokratia = Demos + Kratos

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Aeschylus

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Language of politics

• From Greek: politics (from polis), anarchy , aristocracy, monarchy, tyranny, oligarchy, plutocracy, … democracy

• From Latin: citizens, constitution, empire, liberal, republic, state - and power and people

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The Greek World

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Plato and Pericles

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Herodotus

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Persian Kings: Darius

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Athenian Juror’s Token and/or Juror ballot

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Kyniska inscription, 396 BCE

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‘Kings of Sparta are my father and brothers Kyniska, victorious with a chariot of swift-footed horses, have erected this statue. I declare myself the only woman in all Hellas to have won this crown.’

Justinian

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10 Things You Should Know About Democracy in Ancient Greece

Professor Paul Cartledge AG Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College,

Cambridge, AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus,

University of Cambridge