Our goal is to build a digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy that will be useful to a wide audience. We hope to describe the history, institutions, and people of democratic Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, to publish the efforts of scholars to answer questions about Athenian democracy, and to invite you, our audience, to explore, discover, and judge for yourselves.
Dēmos is a publication of The Stoa: a Consortium for Scholarly Publication in the Humanities, and has greatly benefited from the infrastructure, expertise, and friendship of that institution and everyone involved with it, especially Anne Mahoney and Ross Scaife. Dēmos would not exist without The Perseus Project and its editor-in-chief, Gregory Crane. This project has also profited from an association with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, under the wise direction of Gregory Nagy. Hugh Cayless, of OASIS and the UNC Digital Library Project, is responsible for writing the Transcoder that allows this site to display Greek; we are deeply indebted to him. Thomas Martin and Neel Smith of The College of the Holy Cross have been instrumental throughout the lifetime of the project. The earliest work on Dēmos was supported by grants from Furman University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The contents of the articles in Dēmos are licensed under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-1.0). This scripts that drive the site are licensed under a Creative Commons License (NonCommecial-1.0).
Starting Points
The Evidence for Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell· article ·Necessary Context: descriptions of the ancient genres, authors, and works that form our textual evidence for Athenian democracy · Christopher Blackwell, Christopher Cotten, David Phillips, & Hershal Pleasant.· article ·An Introduction to the Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell· article | 57 page pdf ·A Brief Early History of Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell· article | 27 page pdf ·Overview, History, & Institutions
The Assembly of the People · Christopher Blackwell· article | 46 page pdf ·The Council of 500: the institution · Christopher Blackwell· article | 95 page pdf ·The Council of 500: its history · Christopher Blackwell· article | 26 page pdf ·The Council of the Areopagus · Christopher Blackwell· article | 38 page pdf ·Legislation under the Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell· article | 22 page pdf ·Special Investigations under the Athenian Democracy · Christopher Blackwell· article | 11 page pdf ·Biographies, Images, & Arguments
Cimon · Christopher Blackwell· article | 20 page pdf ·Ephialtes · Christopher Blackwell· article | 16 page pdf ·Scythian Archers: policing Athens · Elizabeth Baughman· article | 6 page pdf ·Poetry and the Dēmos: State Regulation of a Civic Possession · Casey Dué· article | 14 page pdf ·Portraits of historical individuals · Amy Smith· article | 28 page pdf ·The Eponymous Heroes of Athens · Amy Smith· article | 31 page pdf ·Images of personifications of political ideas · Amy Smith· article | 78 page pdf ·A Bibliography of Democratic Art · Amy Smith· article | 5 page pdf ·Technical Articles about the Site
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