to name a few, have contributed greatly to studies of ancient Athens and its democratic political form. Much of Ober's work is concerned with the origins and development of democracy, which he explored by focusing on various aspects of the sociopolitical and cultural contexts in ancient Athens and beyond, such as military tactics (Ober, 1985), social cohesion (Ober, 1989, 2005), the formation of knowledge (Ober, 2008), and political theory and practice (Ober, 1996, 1998). Hansen, in his research drawing on archeological data and morphological and literary analysis of ancient Greek texts, focused on the political concepts and institutions that defined Greek cities of the archaic and classical periods as political units