Re: query

[Michael Hoover <hooverm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> cbcox@xxxxxxxxx 09/23/04 12:02 PM >>>
> most athenian citizens ('free white males', about 10% of city-state's
> inhabitants) called their polis democracy through most of second half
of
> 5th century bc...   michael hoover
> ------------------------
By Barbara Garson
According to Thucydides, the digression into Sicily in 416 BC - a
sideshow that involved lying exiles, hopeful contractors, politicized
intelligence, a doctrine of preemption - ultimately cost Athens
everything, including its democracy.

Michael & B Garson are both somewhat inaccurate. The Sicilian defeat
resulted in a quickly overthrown tyranny, and the Spartan victory led to
a very temporary rule of the "Thirty Tyrants," but after their overthrow
the Athenian democracy lasted until supppressed by Alexander of Macedon
-- and as one historian put, the Athenians went down fighting and
knowing what they were fighting for.
Carrol
<<<<>>>>>

may appear picky here, but i think my above comment about athenian
citizens calling their polis democracy through most of second half of
5th century b.c. is correct...  michael hoover





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