From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens

by Martin Ostwald

Overview

Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing what had been enacted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520909687
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/28/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	500
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Martin Ostwald is W. R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Classics at Swarthmore College, Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Autonomia: Its Genesis and Early History (1982).