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A company of citizens : what the world's first democracy teaches leaders about creating great organizations. Boston. Meier C. 1998, Athens: a portrait of the city in its Golden Age (translated by R. and R. Kimber). New York; Ober, Josiah (1989). Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Power of the People. Princeton.
The Pnyx was the official meeting place of the Athenian democratic assembly (Ancient Greek: ἐκκλησία, ekklesía).In the earliest days of Athenian democracy (after the reforms of Kleisthenes in 508 B.C.), the ekklesia met in the Agora.
The municipality (Center) of Athens is the most populous in Greece, with a population of 643,452 people (in 2021) [4] and an area of 38.96 km 2 (15.04 sq mi), [7] forming the core of the Athens Urban Area within the Attica Basin.
In the classical period, Athens was a centre for the arts, learning, and philosophy, the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, [2] [3] Athens was also the birthplace of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Aristophanes, Sophocles, and many other prominent philosophers, writers, and politicians of the ancient world.
Agora Picturebook 23. Princeton, New Jersey: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 978-0-87661-637-6 OL 23845464M; Lang, M. (2004). The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora. Rev. ed. Agora Picturebook 4. Princeton, New Jersey: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 9780876616420 (John McK. Camp's ...
A democracy by c. 560 BC Cyrene: A democracy from c. 550 BC Naxos: A democracy from c. 550 to 490 BC Ambracia: Probably a democracy by c. 550 BC Argos: A democracy possibly from c. 550, and definitely from 494 BC Elis: Possibly a democracy in the 6th century, and definitely in the 5th century BC Samos: Possibly a democracy in the late 6th ...
These activities were often handled by a form of direct democracy, based on a popular assembly. Others, of judicial and official nature, were often handled by large juries, drawn from the citizen body in a process known as sortition. By far the most well-documented and studied example is the Athenian democracy in Athens.
The Athenian Revolution (508–507 BCE) was a revolt by the people of Athens that overthrew the ruling aristocratic oligarchy, establishing the almost century-long self-governance of Athens in the form of a participatory democracy – open to all free male citizens.