Barbato, Matteo 2023. Elite Politicians or Ordinary Citizens? Decree Making and Political Friendship in fifth-century Athens. Klio, Vol. 105, Issue. 2, p. 403.
At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic ...
The popular assembly had first met in a location not far from the marketplace of Athens, called the agora ... but during the fifth century BC it was enlarged on a grandiose scale.