Democracy, the political system that remains a global demand today, was born in Greece about thirty centuries ago, as a product of freedom and the development of free individuals - of which it immediately became a refuge and a prerequisite.

The excerpts that contain the entirety of the perceptions expressed by ancient Greece about the democratic system - perceptions that were diverse and sometimes conflicting - outline the historical course of a people who, collectively and freely, decide on their own fate and that of their homeland, and even more so, they shape a political culture that undoubtedly has a binding character for our era.

This book presents the opinions of the following ancient authors: Solon, [Phalaris], Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Antiphon, Democritus, Thucydides, Andocides, Aristophanes, Lysias, Isocrates, Xenophon, Plato, Ephorus, Lycurgus, Aeschines, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Demades, Theophrastus, Aeneas the Tactician, [Chion], Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Strabo, Longinus, Philo, Josephus, Arrian, Dion Chrysostom, Appian, Plutarch, Pausanias, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, Maximus of Tyre, Hermogenes, Dio Cassius, Athenaeus, Aelian, Philostratus, Plotinus, Porphyry, Apsines, Diogenes Laertius, Julian, Libanius, Sallustius, Syrianus, Proclus, Stobaeus, Olympiodorus, Procopius, Choricius.