Aristotle: Athenian Constitution

Further Reading

Articles

• Forrest, G. “Greece: The History of the Archaic Period.” In The Oxford History of the Classical World, ed. John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, and Oswyn Murray. New York: Oxford University Press, New York, 1986.
• Rhodes, Peter John. “The Reforms and Laws of Solon the Wise: An Optimistic View.” In Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, ed. Josine Blok and André Lardinois. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2006.

Books

• Day, James, and Mortimer Chambers. Aristotle's History of Athenian Democracy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
• Irwin, Elizabeth. Solon and Early Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Keaney, John J. The Composition of Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia: Observation and Explanation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Moore, J. M. Aristotle and Xenophon on Democracy and Oligarchy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
• Raaflaub, Kurt A., et al. Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
• Rhodes, Peter John. Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1981.
• Robinson, Eric W., ed. Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources. Oxford, U.K: Blackwell, 2003.

Web Sites

• “A History of Ancient Greece: Solon's Early Greek Legislation.” International World History Project Web site. http://history-world.org/solon.htm.