[PDF.26fs] Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy

Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy

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 | #1783286 in Books |  Verso |  1989-07-17 |  1989-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.74 | File type: PDF | 220 pages

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|| |“Learned, elegantly argued and, I think, important ... Ellen Wood is inviting us, indeed I would say obliging us, to reconsider our picture of Athens.”| —The Independent||“There is much of unquestionable value in this read

The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture.

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