France and Iberia, which were parts of the Roman Empire, and partially influenced by Ancient Greek colonies, remained feudal, non-democratic monarchies between the Roman era up until …

2017年11月25日 · To understand what democracy was and how it worked, we need to see it in the context of the common political systems of the Greek world. Generally speaking, Greek …

2012年1月2日 · Really, though, the concept of "Greek" democracy is really nonexistent. Every Greek city-state did pretty much everything different from each other city. Even the Spartans …

2013年6月27日 · The Athenian democracy has two main phases, from the overthrow of the Pisistratids in 510 to the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404. First there is the Cleisthenid …

2013年11月28日 · Firstly the term democracy itself is a very debatable subject so pinpointing a specific definition of one that has universal acceptance is impossible, plus there exists many …

2014年9月5日 · The only example of a truly unconnected democracy can be found in the cantons of Switzerland where they have proceedings very similar to the Athenian Ecclesia (Athenian …

2015年11月23日 · Authors like Peter Krentz, Hans van Wees and Louis Rawlings have shown that Archaic Greek combat was much more fluid, with different troop types mixed on the …

2015年2月6日 · The Democracy survived the existential crisis of the Peloponnesian War and conquest by Philip, but there was nothing systemic to protect the individual. This would have …

2012年12月12日 · There were certainly issues, which Thucydides does not shy from pointing out, but also a great flourishing of language, literature, art, mathematics, political theory, and …

2015年10月2日 · Well, Greek democracy isn't really where modern democracy came from--there was a significant interruption, and modern democracy is from a separate tradition and quite …