This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480 – 323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when ...

The people built fantastic temples, made scientific discoveries, wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy ... out over the city of Athens. The final period of Greek history is known ...

Classical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today ... It shows how democracy helped the Athenians to be better soldiers. For the first time ...