Thanks and acknowledgements are gratefully extended to the following who have given generously of their time and suggested resources. Of course they are not responsible for any errors or views expressed here.
Prof. Richard Graff, Department of Writing Studies, University of Minnesota.
Prof. Christopher Johnstone, Communication Arts and Sciences, Penn State U.
Prof. Theofanis Stavrou, Department of History, University of Minnesota and Soteirous Stavrou.
The students on my Greek trips who made much of this travel and photography possible by being willing to travel with me to Greece
Sources, web
DEMOS - Classical Athenian Democracy - Describes itself as a "digital encyclopedia of classical Athenian democracy." Collection of articles. (Up 1/22/21, posted 2/4/10)
Association of Friends of the Acropolis - supports archeology, publishes a series of guides. (Up 1/22/21, posted 1/28/10)
The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora
M. Lang
(American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004)
One of their small pamphlets with a lot of information and pictures of artifacts from the agora. Available online
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens
Josiah Ober
(Princeton, 1989)
Careful examination from a rhetorical perspective. Focus on 4th cent. BC.
First Principles
Thomas Ricks
(HarperCollins, 2020)
What our first four presidents took from ancient Rome and Greece.
Athenian Democracy
P. J. Rhodes, ed.
(Oxford, 2004)
Collection of essays by Davis, Hansen, Rhodes, Ober, Sealey and several others. Discusses a number of topics relating to the assembly and law courts.
Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
Mogens Hansen
(Blackwell, 1991)
Review of the issue by a major scholar.
Greek Political Thought
Ryan Balot
(Blackwell, 2006)
Democratic theorizing and its opponents from Archaic to Hellenistic Greece
Modern sources of note
Hills of Philoppappos - Pnyx - Nymphs:
Brief History and Tour. Series: Archaeological promenades around the Acropolis. (2004, The Association of Friends of the Acropolis)
Detailed description, photos and diagrams of the Pnyx and associated sites. Includes minor sites in this area.
Democracy and Classical Greece
J. K. Davis
(Harvard, 1993)
Survey of the issues. Well written.
The Athenian Ecclesia
Mogens Hansen
(Museum Tusculanum, 1983 and 1989)
Two volume collection of papers written by a leading scholar on issues of the Assembly site and procedures of the Assembly.
Demokratia
Josiah Ober & C. Hedrick, eds.
(Princeton, 1996)
Essays by various scholars.
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens
Deborah Boedeker & K. Raaflaub, eds.
(Harvard, 1998)
Essays by various scholars connecting the arts to politics.
The Life and Death of Democracy
John Keane
(Norton, 2009)
An ambitious history of democracy from before Athens through to the future. Has a revisionist view on Athens. Use with caution.
Democracy: modern resources
