Athenian democracy

This write-up describes the Athens and Sparta obtained the right to participate in public life and made decisions affecting the community. It throws light on the person that held public office and the rules that governed the selection of public office holders. Athens and Sparta are both ancient super in Greece . This essay will elaborate the similarities and differences in their governmental structures. It also states the statues of slaves and non citizens. The nature, process and structure of…

be a white male landowner with a lot of money. All of this is an example of a Ancient Greek democracy. This also explains what a greek democracy is. In some type of way, in Ancient Greece a political life seemed more democratic than lot other other democracies. It also seemed less democratic. City-States were not wealthy at all. In a city-state the majority of them…

The three definitions of Demos The first reference to the demos in our reading this week was in relation to the reforms introduced to Athens by Cleisthenes. In a move to restructure Athenian politics, Cleisthenes split Athens into ten tribes. These ten tribes were made up of the people in subdivisions of land he carefully carved out in Athens. He made sure that the original factions were split randomly and scattered amongst the different subdivisions of land. In this instance, demos referred…

Plato constructs a society in which the wise men, known as the philosophers, hold the highest position in the government. If he gave up this assumption that certain people are intrinsically unfit to occupy certain political social positions, he wouldn’t make this claim. He would instead create a society where everyone’s voice is heard no matter which social status they come from. A society that hears the voices of all the people and doesn’t underestimate their ideas. Also, he would allow the…

because of their trading and money production. Lastly, the Athenian education clearly surpassed the Spartan education. There was no comparison of both medications because the Athens education is superior. Athens have an upper hand in education which will provide better futures for the…

Greece) has impacted Politics, Language, modern day religion. Politics and Government. The Government, laws, and political philosophies that is found in the United States derive and find its origins in the Greco-Roman world. The first, major democracy in the history of the world was Athens, Greece (even though there is a possibility it wasn’t the first…

it was used to influence the actions of others. In the ostensibly democratic Athens (at least for free men born in the city to native parents) (Goldstein 88), Aristotle emphasized the role of rhetoric in persuading one’s fellow citizens who, in a democracy (again, a relative term), held the power. In ancient Rome, still enamored by the pretense of possessing strong civic institutions, even after the social breakdown following the Punic Wars that lead to the Caesarian destruction…

Firstly, in order to gain a clear understanding of what the Athenian Assembly would have been like, it is important to look at who would attend the assemblies, as obviously, one would not be able to propose a motion without first gaining to right to attend. From reading speeches by Demosthenes, we can see that there was a process you had to go through in order to gain permission to attend. As part of his speech Against Leochares, Demosthenes comments that ‘he had the audacity to go and enrol…

Tōkyō. Though, in Athens a δῆμος was the smallest political administrative subdivision of the city, where males upon becoming 18, had to present themselves to the officials of their demos to prove that they were not slaves and that their parent were Athenians in order to get enrolled in the “Assembly List” («πίναξ ἐκκλησιαστικός») (Blackwell, 2003).…

Athenian Government in 403 BCE Athens went through many changes in government structure, and eventually produced the most radical democracy of its time. The shape of the Athenian government in 403 BCE was especially important, because it changed from the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants, established by Sparta after the Peloponnesian War to a radical democracy. The radical democracy was successful and remained the shape of the Athenian government for around a hundred years. Athenians went…