The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book)

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The artifacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since it used to be first published almost 20 years ago. Showing how tribal identity used to be central to all aspects of civic life, the text guides the reader through the duties of citizenship; as soldier in times of war and as juror all the way through the peace. The checks and balances that secure Athenian society from tyrants, such as legal assassination and ostracism, are described. Selected inscriptions are illustrated and discussed, as are ingenious devices such as allotment machines and water clocks, which ensured fairness within the courts. The book ends with one of the lasting products of classical administration; the silver coins accepted across the known world, and the usual weights and measures that continue to give protection to the consumer from unscrupulous merchants. Now illustrated entirely in color, with updates and revisions by the current director of excavations on the Agora, this new edition of an acknowledged classic will inform and fascinate visitors and students for many future years.

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