[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Navy

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The Athenian Navy With thousands of kilometers of coastline and hundreds of islands, the Greek world was likely to be dominated only by a naval power. A generation after the establishment of democracy ... carried 170 rowers manning ... people who man the fleet and ... ram manned by highly

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Democracy from the Past to the Future

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Democracy from the Past to the Future Searching for models for the new government they were creating, America's Founding Fathers studied both the democracy of Athens and the republic of Rome, but they ... (Rights of Man by Thomas Paine) ... Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: The Eponymous Heroes

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The Eponymous Heroes Just as all governmental activity and policy stemmed from the individual Athenian citizen, so there was a center in the Agora from which the lines of power went out to all men in all ... his tribe, each man

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Citizenship Tribes and Demes

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Citizenship: Tribes and Demes Every male Athenian, above and beyond the regular universal military training for service in the citizen army, was subject to universal political service. Besides being a ... achieved, and every man was a ... each year. Every man held

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Ostracism

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Ostracism In addition to the legal assassination condoned in the Law against Tyranny, a less extreme method was also available for removing powerful but dangerous men from public life. This was a formal, ... scratched the name of the man who ... man whose name appeared on

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... were cast, the man with the ... too powerful: the first man ... man, if powerful enough,

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Women

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The Unenfranchised I - Women Numerous people resident in Athens and Attica had little part in the political life of the state. Most glaring by modern standards was the exclusion of women, although a similar ... sheep-dealer, a man lowly born and ... most important man of Athens

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Solon the Lawgiver

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Solon the Lawgiver By the early 6th century B.C. social tensions in Athens had become acute, pitting the poorer citizens against rich and powerful landowners. Many citizens were reduced to the status of ... allowed the man who owned them ... driven by a man, 6th century ... another man, one with no land