Government during Stormy Times. Scenes of Athenian Democracy and its Connection with the Crisis

This paper is oriented to the analysis of the relationship between democracy and crisis, paying attention to the antecedents outside the Greek context and its development in Athens. On this basis, it reviews two kinds of friction with other political models. On the one hand, the elements of tension with aristocracy, through the testimony of Thucydides and the Old Oligarch, and with the governments run by one person, through Xenophon's Hiero, to assess the role of the relationship with crisis in the general profile.