During the Classical period and the Golden Age in Athens Pericles was the major patron of art, architecture and literature. He infused the Athenian people with national pride and promoted larger production from tradesmen, craftsmen and artists.
The first democracy was a limited democracy introduced by Cleisthenes in 507 BCE after expulsion of the tyrant. Voting was limited to landowners. This democracy was replaced by an oligarchy to lead during the Persian War. A broader democracy of citizens was reintroduced byEphialtes in 461 BCE. He was assassinated and his deputy Pericles introduced radical democracy of all Athenian adult males in 444 BCE after expelling the competing landowner party in the assembly.
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Cleisthenes was important because he was known as the reformer of the constitution of Athens. He also began to point Athens in the way of becoming a democracy. He is known as "the father of Athenian democracy."
First, it was limited when established by Cleisthenes in 5008 BCE to landowners (they had a personal stake in good government). When Ephialtes restored democracy in 460 BCE after the Oligarchs had made a comeback during the Persian War he expanded it with the full male populace voting in assembly on issued put to it. Then Pericles radicalised it with the Assembly making all decisions and the Council carrying them out between the fortnightly meetings.
Pericles was an Athenian Statesman, he lived in time of the Anicent Athens as he produced democracy and built many famous buildings still standing today.
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After the initial democracy established by Cleisthenes in 508 BCE went into abeyance during and after the Persian invasion, Ephialtes re-established the democracy in 460 BCE. He was assassinated by the aristocrats and his deputy Pericles took over, expelling the aristocratic Themistocles son of Melesias and progressed development into a direct democracy where the citizens directed action meeting in regular assemblies.
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The limited democracy of Cleisthenes 507 BCE had an assembly of landowners where they could address the assembly. During the radical democracy period, only the citizens had the right to speak in assembly.
In the general context of "government," something true and important about the ancient Athenian government is that, during the Classical Period in Greece, it was organized as a democracy. While it was not a "pure" democracy, since only relatively few citizens were able to vote and hold public office, it was nonetheless the first appearance of democracy in Western Civilization.
All male citizens could vote in the city assembly regardless of wealth.
Direct Democracy
During the Classical period and the Golden Age in Athens Pericles was the major patron of art, architecture and literature. He infused the Athenian people with national pride and promoted larger production from tradesmen, craftsmen and artists.
Socrates was a Classical Greek philosopher known for his contributions to the field of ethics and his method of questioning, which is now named the Socratic method. Pericles was an influential Athenian statesman during the Golden Age of Athens, known for promoting democracy and overseeing the construction of the Parthenon. Both figures played significant roles in shaping ancient Greek society and culture.
It developed into a direct democracy - unlike the representative democracy of today, where the electorate elects parliamentarians to make laws, the electorate in Athens met fortnightly in assembly and voted themselves directly on the laws and proposals put before them.
During the radical democracy period, government was by the assembly of the adult male citizens, who directed on everything. The council carried out its decisions.