World History
Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy - A digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy offering biographies, images, history, and arguments. Some of the content is in PDF format.
A few sample articles include Scythian Archers: policing Athens, Legislation under the Athenian Democracy, and A Brief Early History of Athenian Democracy.
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Our goal is to build a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. We hope to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves.
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World History
Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy
Demos: Classical Athenian Democracy - A digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy offering biographies, images, history, and arguments. Some of the content is in PDF format.
A few sample articles include Scythian Archers: policing Athens, Legislation under the Athenian Democracy, and A Brief Early History of Athenian Democracy.
From the site:
Our goal is to build a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. We hope to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves.
- Democracy In Hawaii
Scott Crawford has an interesting post about democracy in Hawaii in Response to Twigg-Smith - Thurston and "Republic" = anti-democratic. In it, he deplores how the Hawaiian Kingdom ended without a democratic vote. Crawford writes, "The truth is that the...
- The 300
I am very excited about a new film opening next week. It is 300 which is an account of the famous Greek last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. At that battle, a small handful of Greeks slowed the Persians down and inflicted anywhere from 20...
- Civic Education For Democracy In Latvia: The Program Of The Democracy Advancement Center
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