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The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature In honor of beloved Virgil— “O degli altri poeti onore e lume . . .” —Dante,Inferno The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions to this book provided by the following: The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Fund of the Department of Classics, the Royce Family Fund in Teaching Excellence, and the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University The Magie Fund of the Department of Classics at Princeton University The Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which is supported by a major gift from Joan Palevsky Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace With chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around theworld by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences,and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions fromindividuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2007 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Raaflaub, Kurt A. Origins of democracy in ancient Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace ; with chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13, 978-0-520-24562-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-100-520-24562-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Democracy—Greece.—History—To 1500. 2. Greece— Politics and government—To 146 B.C. 3. Democracy—Greece— Athens—History—To 1500. 4. Athens (Greece)—Politics and government. I. Ober, Josiah. II. Wallace, Robert W., 1950– III.Title. JC75.D36R33 2007 320.938'5-dc22 2006026246 Manufactured in the United States of America 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on Natures Book, which contains 50% post-consumer waste and meets the minimum requirements of ansi/nisoz39.48–1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). CONTENTS About the Authors / vii Chronology of Events / ix List of Abbreviations / xi 1. Introduction / 1 Kurt A. Raaflaub 2. “People’s Power” and Egalitarian Trends in Archaic Greece / 22 Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert W. Wallace 3. Revolutions and a New Order in Solonian Athens and Archaic Greece / 49 Robert W. Wallace 4. “I Besieged That Man”: Democracy’s Revolutionary Start / 83 Josiah Ober 5. The Breakthrough of Demokratiain Mid-Fifth-Century Athens / 105 Kurt A. Raaflaub 6. Democracy, Origins of: Contribution to a Debate / 155 Paul Cartledge 7. Power to the People / 170 Cynthia Farrar Bibliography / 197 Index of primary sources / 225 general Index / 233 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Paul Cartledgereceived his DPhil from Oxford in 1975. He is currently Pro- fessor of Greek History in the Faculty of Classics and Professorial Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge. His main interests are Greek social, political, and cultural history, Sparta’s history through the ages, and the continuing signiWcance of ancient history in our own time. He has edited or coedited several volumes, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Greece (1998) and Money, Labour, and Land: Approaches to the Economies of Ancient Greece (2002), and recently published Spartan Reflections(2001); The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others,second edition (2002); The Spartans, second edi- tion (2003); Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past, revised edition (2005); and Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World (2006). He is cur- rently writing a specialist history of Greek political thought from Homer to Plutarch. Cynthia Farrarreceived her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1984. She currently directs a project on deliberation and local governance at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) and teaches in the Department of Political Science. She explores and pursues strategies for energizing citizenship, particularly at the local level. Among other projects, she coordinates the Citizen Deliberations for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions’ national By the Peopleinitiative. She is the author of The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens (1988) and articles on deliberative democracy. Josiah Oberreceived his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1980. He is Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University. He works primarily within and between the areas of Athenian history, clas- sical political philosophy, and democratic theory and practice. His current vii
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