Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy by Ellen Meiksins Wood

Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy

Ellen Meiksins Wood

224 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that...

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