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GKROMST 4L03

ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY

Undergraduate

Fall 2023 · C01

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Institutions of the Athenian Democracy
  • The Nature of Athenian Democracy
  • Rhetores and Demos
  • Citizenship and Civil Society in Athens
  • The Economy of Athens
  • The Democracy at War
  • The Ekklesia
  • The Dikasteria
  • Policing Athens: Gossip, rumour and public scrutiny
  • Flex class/Matters outstanding
  • Flex class/Matters outstanding -- Essay Due

Readings

  • Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
    Josiah Ober · Required
  • The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
    Mogens Hansen · Required
  • Hansen, “Evidence,” in The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes (pp. 1-26) (first reading on ATL)
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  • [Aristotle] Constitution of the Athenians 1-27; Herodotus 5.55-78 Ober (1994) “The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C” (ATL) Hansen, Athenian Democracy, pp. 27-72, 86-124
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  • Ps.-Xen. Constitution of the Athenians; Thucydides 2.34-46 Ober, Mass and Elite, pp. 293-340 Ober, “The Nature of Athenian Democracy” (ATL) Ober, “Public Speech and the Power of the People in Democratic Athens” (ATL)
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  • Aristophanes, Knights Hansen, Athenian Democracy, pp. 266-87 Ober, Mass and Elite, pp. 104-52
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  • Aristophanes, Acharnians 1-173; [Aristotle] Constitution of the Athenians 43; Thucydides 4.27-28; Demosthenes 9 (Third Philippic) Hansen, Athenian Democracy, pp. 125-160 Ober, Mass and Elite, pp. 156-191
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  • [Aristotle] Constitution of the Athenians 63-69; Demosthenes 21 (Against Medias) Hansen, Athenian Democracy, pp. 178-224 Ober, Mass and Elite, pp. 127-148
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