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DEMOCRACY IN ANCIENT ATHENS. V th CENTURY B. C.

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DEMOCRACY IN ANCIENT ATHENS. Vth CENTURY B. C.

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THE POLIS

• It’s formed by quite a small territory which includes a central city and the rural space in the city’s surroundings.

• It’s the principal institution of sociopolitical organisation in Ancient Greece.

• The most prominent examples: Sparta and Athens.

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Sparta

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Social organization in Sparta

• A privileged and militarized class: the homoioi.

• The apella, the gerousia, the ephors and the two kings.

• Farmers, craftsmen and merchants: the perioeci.

• The slaves: the helots.

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Athens

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EKKLESIA

BOULEPOPULAR COURTS

MAGISTRATES

GOVERNMENT ORGANS IN ATHENS

• ALL THE ATHENS’ CITIZENS• TO VOTE TAXES AND LAWS• TO DECLARE THE WAR

• 500 CITIZENS, ELEC-TED FOR ONE YEAR• TO REDACT THE LAWS

• 6000 CITIZENS •ELECTED AT RANDOM

• TO RULE ATHENS’ POLI-TICS AND ATHENS’ ARMY• ELECTED FOR ONE YEAR

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PRINCIPAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ATHENS’ DEMOCRACY

• All the citizens have the same rights (isonomia)• All the citizens are allowed and encouraged to

speak in the Ekklesia (isogoria)• All the citizens have the same chances to hold a

political post (isocracia)• Take for granted that women, foreign people and

slaves are excluded of Athens’ citizenship.

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The man: Pericles (490-429)

• He was the leader of Athens’ democratic group for more than thirty years.

• All over those years, he took a lot political posts. For fifteen years he was reelected for that of estratega, something like the leader of Athens’ army.

• During the time of his leadership it was decided to build the Parthenon.

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LEGISLATIVE POWER

EXECUTIVE POWER

JUDICIALPOWER

GREEK DEMOCRACY

MODERN DEMOCRACY

COMPARISON WITH MODERN DEMOCRACY

ECLESIA PARLIAMENT

GOVERNMENTMAGISTRATES

JUDGESPOPULAR COURTS