The city-states of ancient Greece were organized as direct democracies, in which all citizens (a category that excluded commoners, women, and slaves) had the right to vote on all matters of interest. public. This painting shows an assembly of citizens in a public forum.
Unlike today's democracies, the city-state democracies of classical Greece were direct democracies, where all citizens had a voice and vote in their respective representative bodies. Representative government was not known, which was unnecessary due to the small dimensions of the city-states, which hardly had more than 10 thousand inhabitants.