As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. (Robert A. Dahl)

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Robert A. Dahl

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