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Decrees and Laws.

Election of Officials.

Foreign Policy: Sending Embassies.

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The Assembly 

Christopher W. Blackwell, edition of March 26, 2003

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· Summary ·

The Assembly ( ἐκκλησία ) was the regular gathering of male Athenian citizens (women also enjoyed the status of “citizen,” but without political rights) to listen to, discuss, and vote on decrees that affected every aspect of Athenian life, both public and private, from financial matters to religious ones, from public festivals to war, from treaties with foreign powers to regulations governing ferry boats.

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Christopher W. Blackwell, “The Assembly,” in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of March 26, 2003. Contact: cwb@stoa.org.

© March 26, 2003, Christopher W. Blackwell. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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