Athens: Birthplace of Democracy?
The Ancients
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The Evolution of Democracy in Greece
Some people think a major qualitative transformation took place in the 460s. And this is a reform package. You've got a Clicones reform package then the next big reform package. The effect of which is to finally deprive the elites, especially elite of birth of any residual distinctive or exceptional power. So, more egalitarian still, less aristocratic, more anti-Aristic, by 460 BC.
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