Abstract
THIS PAPER examines how Modern revolutionary movements interpreted the expressions Greek democracy and Athenian democracy. Analyses of ancient documents prove that Athens' social regime was founded upon slavery. Neither did the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire did not practice democracy, as we understand the term today. In spite of these semantic differences, the myths of Greek democracy and Rome's republican freedoms were useful to the Jacobins' ideology that propounded policies of equality and freedom for all citizens. The essay also brings up the intimate relationship between liberalism and slavery in late 18th century England and in post-1789 France
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