The Dexileos Stele assesses the way that Athenian political thought penetrated all levels of society, showing the conflict that the aristocratic classes were faced with in trying to find their place within the Athenian Democracy. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/631/the-dexileos-stele-a-study-of-aristocracy-and-demo/ #History #AthenianDemocracy #Athens #Burial

Today, on short notice, we can announce an extra guest lecture in our summer program:

On Wed, June 14th, 4-6 pm, Prof. Michele Kennerly (@mjkennerly) from Penn State will bring #AthenianDemocracy into dialogue with the age of #Cyberculture in her talk on "Living Well in Cybercultural Eutopia". Join us in RW 2 (ReWi/Haus Recht und Wirtschaft I)!

Supported by the Center for Intercultural Studies/ZIS @uni-mainz@wisskomm.social

#mainz #jgu #antiquidons #rhetodons #histodons #Classics #PennState

Solon (c. 640 – c. 560 BCE) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet, who is credited with restructuring the social and political organisation of Athens and thereby laying the foundations for Athenian democracy. Such were his accomplishments that, in later centuries, he became a sort of semi-mythical founding father figure who had set Athens on the path to the glory and prosperity the city...https://www.worldhistory.org/solon/ #AthenianDemocracy #Atlantis #GreekGovernment

Solon (c. 640 – c. 560 BCE) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet, who is credited with restructuring the social and political organisation of Athens and thereby laying the foundations for Athenian democracy. Such were his accomplishments that, in later centuries, he became a sort of semi-mythical founding father figure who had set Athens on the path to the glory and prosperity the city...https://www.worldhistory.org/solon/ #AthenianDemocracy #Atlantis #GreekGovernment

Demosthenes (c. 384 - 322 BCE) was an Athenian statesman who famously stood against Macedonian king Philip II and whose surviving speeches have established him as one of the greatest patriots and powerful orators from ancient Greece. He is not to be confused with the 5th century BCE Athenian general of the same name.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Demosthenes/ #AthenianDemocracy #BattleofChaeronea #Demosthenes