Die athenische Demokratie

In ancient Athens, democracy took shape as an idea and as a form of government. Angela Pabst shows in her compact and generally understandable introduction that the study of this oldest precursor of our modern constitution is still relevant. However, she not only brings Athenian democracy - its political structures, offices and laws - to life in its significance for the present, but at the same time illuminates the fact that it occupied a completely exceptional position alongside other forms of rule some two and a half millennia ago. The questions why Athens took such a special path and what consequences this had for the social position of men and women lead to many surprising but well-founded answers. Thus, the reader not only gains a detailed insight into the early development of democracy, but also into the everyday political life and social reality of one of the most important cities of antiquity.