Los marcos de la ciudadanía y de la vida ciudadana en Roma y en Atenas en el desarrollo del arcaísmo

Abstract

In sorne ancient societies, it is possible to find historical processes which are very similar, for instance the origins of the State in Greece and Rome. That is why, from a theoretical point of view, it may be inlightening to study these processes taking into account comparative models. Nonetheless, historians must not be so mechanical as to underestimate historical evidence, however scanty it may be. On the contrary, the aforementioned examples prove, when accuraley analysed, that specific differences are often more important than hypothetical similarities. And that is what we realize in early institutions as well as in social relations of Rome and Athens, althrough both of them ended up as States based on chattel-stavery.