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Their form of democracy was much less representative than modern day democracy. Political leaders were elected, but so were military leaders. Pericles, one of the most famous Athenian politicians, was constantly re-elected to generalship, for example. A strange example of Athenian democracy, at least from our point of view, is ostracism.
The Athenian democracy has two main phases, from the overthrow of the Pisistratids in 510 to the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404. First there is the Cleisthenid democracy, followed by the radical democracy under Pericles. There were other periods after the Peloponnesian War in the 4th Century when democracy was resumed, but it generally ...
I don't want to spam r/history, but I'm deep in Greek history and I took a sidecourse through their democratic system. Apparently Greece Democracy shined most in Athens and was founded by Cleisthenes and spearheaded by Perikles and endured mostly for 2 centuries. I'm sure the fall of the Peloponnesian War had a lasting affect on the Democracies ...
Athenian democracy was not the only form of republican government around, and it was destroyed firstly by Macedon, then a second time by Rome. France and Iberia, which were parts of the Roman Empire, and partially influenced by Ancient Greek colonies, remained feudal, non-democratic monarchies between the Roman era up until the 1700s.
The modern Greeks, after the war of independence against the Turks, set up a State in line with the Western norm. They had to borrow from the ancient Greeks a term, "Kratos", which in ancient Greek doesn't mean State at all; it's not a political notion. Kratos means the fact of being the strongest. It's the brute form.
To understand what democracy was and how it worked, we need to see it in the context of the common political systems of the Greek world. Generally speaking, Greek political communities consisted of a carefully defined population of citizens (usually those born to free parents native to the territory), plus freeborn non-citizens (usually ...
It's a tough question to answer. If by democracy you mean votes and collective decision-making, then it's probably the Greeks. But if you think of democracy as a responsible government that prioritized people's well-being by listening to experts, then India (the idea of ram rajya) and China ( the mandate of heaven) of antiquity were also ...
To simplify it a bit, i will only write about the athenian political system at the time of Perikles (around 450 b.c.). First, here are some pros. If you take away the sexism, racism and the slavery, the system promoted political equality on a high level. 1.Every male had the same right to speak in the assembly, to run for office or to get elected.
This is an old theory known as the Grand Hoplite Narrative (or "hoplite revolution theory"). Roughly, it argues the following: Bam! Democracy. For this theory see in particular the works of V.D. Hanson, Donald Kagan, Kurt Raaflaub, Paul Cartledge, Gregory Viggiano, etc. Recent scholarship has torn this theory to shreds.
Democracy's history in Ancient Greece has traditionally been dominated by one particular city-state; Athens. It's certainly true that Athens portrayed itself as the progenitor of all other democratic states in Ancient Greece, but the simple truth is that we do not actually know that Athens was the first ancient Greek democracy.