Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy

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Thomas R. Martin

Democracy in Aristotle’s Politics

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Libanius’ Hypotheses to the Orations of Demosthenes

Craig Gibson, translator

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Special Collection

Lectures from “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context,” in The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University: On-line Discussion Series, edited by Adriaan Lanni.

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Overview, History, & Institutions

Biographies, Images, & Arguments

Technical Articles about 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.

Inquiries, reports of problems, and suggestions should be directed to Christopher Blackwell: cwb@stoa.org

Dēmos is a publication of The Stoa: a Consortium for Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, and has greatly benefited from the infrastructure, expertise, and friendship of that institution and everyone involved with it, especially Anne Mahoney and Ross Scaife. Dēmos would not exist without The Perseus Project and its editor-in-chief, Gregory Crane. This project has also profited from an association with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, under the wise direction of Gregory Nagy. Hugh Cayless, of OASIS and the UNC Digital Library Project, is responsible for writing the Transcoder that allows this site to display Greek; we are deeply indebted to him. Thomas Martin and Neel Smith of The College of the Holy Cross have been instrumental throughout the lifetime of the project. The earliest work on Dēmos was supported by grants from Furman University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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