Democracy released unheard of potentials in its citizens and ushered in an age of achievement and prosperity. What happened to Cleisthenes after instituting his reforms is, however, a mystery.

In 508 B.C., Cleisthenes, the father of Athenian democracy, championed ostracism as “a precaution against men in high office.” Imaginary View Of The Market Place, Of Agora In Athens, Ancient ...

Introduced in 508 BC by Cleisthenes, known as the “father of Athenian democracy”, the procedure, called ostracism, sought to guard Athenians against the conniving ways of corrupt men.

Greek democracy and modern democracy. The architects of the first democracies of the modern era, post-revolutionary France and the United States, claimed a line of descent from classical Greek ...

Here, as Democracy makes clear in a wonderful discussion between the gods Athena, Apollo and Dionysus, was something new in the world. Because of what Cleisthenes did, we still carry the torch of ...

According to Aristotle, Cleisthenes ushered in what we think of now as the golden age of democracy, which flourished at Athens — despite a few oligarchic interruptions — for nearly 200 years.

The world’s first known democracy came about in 507 B.C., when Cleisthenes, an Athenian leader, introduced a system of political reforms he referred to as demokratia – “rule by the people.” ...