Ancient Athens and Democracy I

I. The importance of history

a)    Understanding origins

II. Ancient Athens and democracy

a)    Pericles praises Athenian democracy

·       Respects majority

·       Equality under law

b)    Reforms of Solon

·       Cancelled debts and freed slaves

·       Rearranged classes

c)    Reforms of Cleisthenes

·       Demokratia

·       Assembly and Council

·       10 Tribes

d)    Athens and exclusion

·       Women, slaves and ‘foreigners’

II. Citizenship and Athenian Democracy

a)  Civic virtue

·       Duties and the polis

b)    Citizenship and equality

·       Equality as the basis for freedom