Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Athenian Oikos and the Kalos Kagathos Behavior -- Chapter 3. The Relationships Between Men and Women and the Social Groups in Classical Athens -- Chapter 4. Preparations for Receiving Guests at the Oikos -- Chapter 5. The Athenian Citizen Identity and...

The present essay analyses decision making procedures concerning economic issues such as the choice of public goods in the prototype democracy, Ancient Athens of the fourth century BC (the “Age of Demosthenes”). It analyses the link between political democracy, “economic” democracy, the...

In the present paper we analyse for the first time as far as we know, the ancient Greek regional proto-federations, of free-democratic city-states. We examine their political institutions and policies, like common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies...