When we can first glimpse early Greek law, in the trial scene in the depiction of the City at Peace on Achilles’ Shield in the Iliad, there’s no sign of a State and certainly no sign of a democracy. Yet by the fourth century BCE, the Athenians had established a radical democracy, one that the Athenian law courts were intimately tied to. As best you can, please trace the milestones in the historical development of the Athenian democracy. Then please describe succinctly some of the outstanding legal features of the developed democracy of the classical period (that is, ca. 490-323 BCE). Please use following Citation.
MacDowell, Douglas M. The Law in Classical Athens. Ithica: Cornell University Press, 1978.
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