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Athēnaiōn politeia
P. J. Rhodes
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Common Peace
Polly Low
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democracy, Athenian
M. H. Hansen
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democracy, non-Athenian and post-Classical
Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth
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Demosthenes (2), Athenian orator
Edward Harris
Though he had many detractors, Demosthenes was often ranked in antiquity as the greatest of the Greek orators. Demosthenes lost his father at an early age, and his estate was mismanaged by his guardians, whom he later sued in an attempt to recovery his inheritance. He began his career in the assembly in 354
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dokimasia
P. J. Rhodes
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Draco
D. M. MacDowell
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Hyperides, Athenian orator and politician, 389–322 BCE
Judson Herrman
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legislation (nomothesia)
Mirko Canevaro
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Lycurgus (3), of Boutadai, Athenian orator and politician, c. 390–c. 325/324 BCE
S. D. Lambert
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papyrology, Greek
H. Maehler
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polis
Oswyn Murray
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Solon, Athenian politician and poet, late 7th century to early 6th century BCE
Edward M. Harris
Solon was an Athenian lawgiver who wrote poetry and enacted laws in 594/3
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Stratocles
R. M. Errington
Stratocles, son of Euthydemus, Athenian from the *deme of Diomeia (c. 355 to after 292
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tetrarchy
Henry Dickinson Westlake and Antony Spawforth
Tetrarchy was first used to denote one of the four political divisions of *Thessaly (‘tetrad’ being a purely geographical term). The term found its way to the Hellenistic east and was applied to the four divisions into which each of the three Celtic tribes of *Galatia was subdivided (Strabo 12. 5. 1, 567 C). In Roman times many Hellenized *client kings in Syria and Palestine were styled ‘tetrarch’, but the number of tetrarchies in any political organization ceased to be necessarily four, denoting merely the realm of a subordinate dynast. Modern scholars conventionally describe as a ‘tetrarchy’ the system of collegiate government (two senior Augusti, two junior Caesars) instituted by *Diocletian (