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Question 1

Solon laid a firm foundation on which democracy was invented

Answer 1

Jones on Solon

Question 2

To the poor, Solon granted freedom and legal recourse against the abuse of the powerful

Answer 2

Holland on Solon helping the poor

Question 3

Some claim Solon as a democratic pioneer, others as a more moderate reformer

Answer 3

Cartledge on Solon

Question 4

Cleisthenes only opened up the political system equally, did not give total control

Answer 4

Jones on Cleisthenes and political equality

Question 5

Cleisthenes was nothing more than an Alcmaeonid schemer, manoeuvring to promote his own aristocratic family

Answer 5

Lewis on Cleisthenes being a schemer

Question 6

Cleisthenes didn’t create democracy any more than Solon. Archons were still supreme magistrates, but the framework of the future democracy had been laid down

Answer 6

Barrow on Cleisthenes not creating democracy

Question 7

General structure of the council was very much Cleisthenes’ work

Answer 7

Hooper on Cleisthenes and the council

Question 8

Pericles reforms were as thoroughly democratic as the world has ever seen

Answer 8

Kagan on Pericles

Question 9

Age of Pericles is one of the most brillaint, enlightened periods of all time

Answer 9

McWhorter on Pericles

Question 10

Athenians kept management of their public life in the hands of the ordinary citizen

Answer 10

Kagan on Athenians

Question 11

If a politician is a good speaker they can influence the assembly - ability to speak can make or break a policy

Answer 11

Wyles on Politicians Influencing assembly

Question 12

Athenians would rarely blame the council for mistakes, rather they’d blame politicians for duping the members

Answer 12

Hooper on Blame shift

Question 13

Council was effectively the government of Athens

Answer 13

Harris on the Council

Question 14

Assembly is the heart of Athenian Democracy

Answer 14

Osborne on the Assembly

Question 15

Demagogues used their rhetoric skills to promote policies which advanced their self interests

Answer 15

Raymond on Demagogues rhetoric

Question 16

Not primarily attacking democracy, but how the democracy of the Athenians is made to work successfully and warn opponents not to interfere

Answer 16

Horn on the Old Oligarch being positive

Question 17

Old Oligarch is full of exaggerations

Answer 17

Gomme on Old Oligarch exaggerating

Question 18

Old Oligarch is deeply hostile to democracy

Answer 18

Jones on Old Oligarch being hostile

Question 19

Wisdom is knowledge of what is best for the city as a whole

Answer 19

McAleer on Plato and Wisdom

Question 20

Sophists do not possess wisdom, but its unsurprising it passes for wisdom, as most of us are prey to flattery - they make people think they’re wise through use of rhetoric

Answer 20

McAleer on Plato and Sophists

Question 21

Aeschylus wanted to inspire people with confidence in its institution and themselves

Answer 21

Decharme on Eumenides inspiring people

Question 22

Eumenides: Areopagus is glorious and worthy of Eternal reverence

Answer 22

Hook on Eumenides and Glory

Question 23

Eumenides is patriotic

Answer 23

Hook on Eumenides and Patrioticism

Question 24

Sings praises of Athens

Answer 24

Hook on Suppliants praise

Question 25

Euripides didn’t ignore or overlook issues that can arise when the masses have control over public matters

Answer 25

Decharme on Suppliants having issues

Question 26

Suppliants is the most persuasive defence of democracy that we’ve seen from the ancient world

Answer 26

Seaford on Suppliants defence of democracy

Question 27

In the conflict between Democracy and Oligarchy, Thucydides disproves of both

Answer 27

Pope on Thucydides and Democracy and Oligarchy

Question 28

Thucydides unconsciously or consciously balances the account on both sides

Answer 28

Pope on Thucydides and Balance

Question 29

Dikaiopolis acts without consent of the community because they’ve never been able to express their views

Answer 29

Macdowell on Acharnians and Dikaiopolis

Question 30

Low attendance allowed decisions to be made by self interested politicians

Answer 30

Macdowell on Acharnians and Low Attendance

Question 31

Existence of Scythian Archers suggets participation was a real issue

Answer 31

Wyles on Acharnians and participation

Question 32

Audience would’ve found the passages boring rather than funny if there was no truth in them

Answer 32

Macdowell on Assemblywomen

Question 33

Knights are so hostile to Cleon that they’d support anyone who has a chance of ousting him, even the sausage seller

Answer 33

Macdowell on Knights support in ‘Knights’

Question 34

Just as sausage seller adds sweeteners to sausgages, Cleon does so in his policies, making them seem more acceptable to the assembly by using his oratory skills

Answer 34

Macdowell on Cleons’ rhetoric in Knights

Question 35

Sausage seller is a scoundrel from a family of scoundrels

Answer 35

Macdowell on Sausage Seller in Knights

Question 36

Aristophanes uses populist comedy to discredit the Political system

Answer 36

Cartledge on Wasps discredit

Question 37

Outcome of the PW been due to failings in the democratic system of government

Answer 37

Macdowell on Frogs foreshadowing failure

Question 38

Comedy was intimately tied to democracy

Answer 38

Edith Hall on Aristophanes and Politics