Larsen J.A. Representative Government in Greek and Roman History

University of California Press, 1955. — 255 p.Ancient Greece witnessed a wide variety of government systems as people searched for the answers to such fundamental questions as who should rule and how? Should sovereignty lie in the rule of law, the constitution, officials, or the citizens? Not settling on a definitive answer, governments in the Greek world took extraordinarily diverse forms, from tyranny to democracy. Across different Greek city-states and over many centuries, political power expressed itself in different forms of government, often in the same city as it evolved. Power could rest in the hands of a single individual, an elite or in every male citizen: democracy - widely regarded as the Greeks' greatest contribution to civilization.
Early Greek Tribal and Federal States.
Representation in Greek Permanent Alliances.
The Adoption of Direct Government.
The Introduction of Representative Government.
Federal States and Commonalities in the Hellenistic Provincial Assemblies in the Western Provinces.
The Transformed Assemblies of the Achaean Confederacy.