This volume showcases for the first time in the Clarendon Ancient History Series one of the best-known prose authors of … classical Athens: Xenophon. Poroi (or, Revenue-Sources) was the final work of his large and varied output, written in the mid …-350s BCE at a time when Athens had failed to prevent the collapse of her second Aegean 'empire', and was impoverished and …

exclusion from politics. It is generally agreed that Athens produced the most radical form of democracy in the history of …Economic Equality and Direct Democracy in Ancient Athens argues against mainstream views, which tend to find an … inexplicable paradox between ancient Athens' extraordinary politics, on the one hand, and its apparent economic inequality, on the …