Contents:
  • Introduction / Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • "People's power" and egalitarian trends in archaic Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub and Robert W. Wallace
  • Revolutions and a new order in solonian Athens and archaic Greece / Robert W. Wallace
  • "I besieged that man" : democracy's revolutionary start / Josiah Ober
  • The breakthrough of dēmokratia in mid-fifth-century Athens / Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • Democracy, origins of : contribution to a debate / Paul Cartledge
  • Power to the people / Cynthia Farrar.