Constitution of Athens

Aristotle did the fieldwork. Lost for centuries and recovered from Egyptian papyrus, this is his account of how Athens actually governed itself: the archons, the reforms of Solon and Cleisthenes, the tyrants, the courts, the lottery that chose officials, the whole machinery of the first democracy described by antiquity's most careful mind. You will discover a founding document of political science. How a democracy really worked, from a man who counted. Press play and take the tour.