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Equality
Equal standing before the law and an equal voice in it — the twin ideals of isonomia and isēgoria.
Greek political equality had two faces: isonomia, equality before the law, and isēgoria, every citizen's equal right to speak in the assembly. Hailed as a watchword of the new Athenian order after Cleisthenes (late 6th c. BCE) and praised in Herodotus' Constitutional Debate, isonomia became the rallying cry against tyranny. Together these ideals defined what it meant to be a free and equal member of the polis, and they remain foundational to egalitarian political thought.
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- History of the Peloponnesian WarAthens · -400explains
- AreopagiticusAthens · -355explains
- CyropaediaAthens · -354explains
- HellenicaAthens · -354applies
- LawsAthens · -348explains
- PanathenaicusAthens · -339explains
- PoliticsChalcis · -322explains
- Nicomachean EthicsChalcis · -322explains
- Against MeidiasAthens · -322explains
- Eudemian EthicsChalcis · -322explains
- Against LeptinesAthens · -322explains
- Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against NeaeraAthens · -322explains
- Against TimocratesAthens · -322explains
- Magna MoraliaChalcis · -322explains
- HistoriesMegalopolis · -118explains
- De Lege AgrariaFormiae · -63explains
- De RepublicaFormiae · -54explains
- Ab urbe conditaPadua · -27explains
- LycurgusChaeronea · 120explains
- Agis and CleomenesChaeronea · 120explains
- Apophthegmata LaconicaChaeronea · 120explains
- SolonChaeronea · 120explains
- Quaestiones ConvivalesChaeronea · 120applies
- SaturnaliaSamosata · 180explains
- Bava KammaSura (Babylonia) · 500
- Abarbanel on TorahNaples · 1505
- Torah Temimah on TorahPinsk · 1904
- Historia RomanaRomeexplains
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De Specialibus Legibus (lib. i‑iv) · Philo Judaeus
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