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  • Before Athens: Early Popular Government in Phoenician and Greek City States

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    Stockwell, Stephen
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    Stockwell, Stephen E.
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    There is no question that Athens developed, named and refined democracy in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC but a number of scholars have pointed to evidence that suggests the ideas and institutions that constitute democracy had previously been tested in other Greek city states and even further afield, in the Middle East. This paper explores the political environment in the eastern Mediterranean in the 6th century and earlier to establish whether any Phoenician cities had their own form of democratic government and whether Phoenician trade into the Greek sphere might have contributed to democratic experiments ...
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    There is no question that Athens developed, named and refined democracy in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC but a number of scholars have pointed to evidence that suggests the ideas and institutions that constitute democracy had previously been tested in other Greek city states and even further afield, in the Middle East. This paper explores the political environment in the eastern Mediterranean in the 6th century and earlier to establish whether any Phoenician cities had their own form of democratic government and whether Phoenician trade into the Greek sphere might have contributed to democratic experiments in other polities before Athens.
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    Journal Title
    Geopolitics, History, and International Relations
    Volume
    2
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://addletonacademicpublishers.com/contents-ghir/166-volume-2-2-2010/1241-before-athens-early-popular-government-in-phoenician-and-greek-city-states
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    © The Author(s) 2010. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this journal please refer to the journal's website or contact the author.
    Subject
    Comparative Government and Politics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/37713
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