Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around the fifth century BC. Athens is one of the first known democracies. Other Greek cities set up democracies, and even though most followed an Athenian model, but none were as well-documented as that of Athens apart from Sparta, which is known for having the strongest military of all the Ancient Greek cities.It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy, a political system in which the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open; to vote one had to be an adult citizen, and only about 45,000 of Athens' population of around 300,000 were citizens.[citation needed] The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres.Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), and Ephialtes (462 BC) contributed to the development of Athenian democracy creating new institutions.The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War. It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system. It was suppressed by the Macedonians in 322 BC. The Athenian institutions were later revived, but the extent to which they were a real democracy is debatable.. }
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- Athenian_democracy abstract "Athenian democracy developed in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the central city-state of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, around the fifth century BC. Athens is one of the first known democracies. Other Greek cities set up democracies, and even though most followed an Athenian model, but none were as well-documented as that of Athens apart from Sparta, which is known for having the strongest military of all the Ancient Greek cities.It remains a unique and intriguing experiment in direct democracy, a political system in which the people do not elect representatives to vote on their behalf but vote on legislation and executive bills in their own right. Participation was by no means open; to vote one had to be an adult citizen, and only about 45,000 of Athens' population of around 300,000 were citizens.[citation needed] The public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres.Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), and Ephialtes (462 BC) contributed to the development of Athenian democracy creating new institutions.The greatest and longest lasting democratic leader was Pericles; after his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolution towards the end of the Peloponnesian War. It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system. It was suppressed by the Macedonians in 322 BC. The Athenian institutions were later revived, but the extent to which they were a real democracy is debatable.".