Also worth noting that Athenian “democracy” limited political rights to roughly 40,000 “citizen” men, out of a population of ca. 400,000-600,000, excluding women, slaves, and anyone whose families had not been Athenian for generations.
Sara Lipton
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Interdisciplinary medievalist; Stony Brook University History Dept. I work on religious history, Jewish-Christian relations, and the role of vision & material culture in shaping identity and generating prejudice. Fervent supporter of public higher ed.
