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A prayer to Democratia, Greek goddess of democracy.

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The goddess Democratia (Democracy) was honored in Athens on 12 Boedromion (September 14 in 2024) (Mikalson “Heorte” 213) beginning in the 4th century BCE; the goddess received sacrifices, was honored with feasts and processions, was served by a priest and commemorated with a statue. (Stafford “Personifications” 82).

In a modern context, Democratia could be honored during an appropriate existing civic and/or patriotic holiday such as Independence Day (the 4th of July) in the United States. It would also be appropriate to honor her on or near Election Day.

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Athenian Political Art: Democratia

Source of the picture: https://library.artstor.org/#/public/BRYN_MAWR_955__955_11687396

Description :This colossal statue, once on a base in front of the Royal Stoa of Athens, may personify Themis, or Demokratia. It was excavated in 1970, found built into a Byzantine wall in front of the Royal Stoa, in the Agora.RepositoryAthens, Agora Museum Accession Number S 2370.

“Demokratia (Democracy) ·

Δημοκρατία

Read about the evidence Herodotus (Hdt.). Thucydides (Thuc.). Andocides (Andoc.). Demosthenes (Dem.)

Discussion: In the late fourth century Demokratia may have been worshipped with Tyche and Eirene. An inscription records offerings (in 333/2 and 332/1) to these three goddesses, among others (IG II2, 1496.107, 127, 131, 140-41). As with Eirene and Tyche, the term demokratia, ἡ δημοκρατία, was first discussed in the middle of the fifth century, when Herodotus connected the establishment of the Athenian democracy with Cleisthenes’ tribal reforms of 508 (Hdt. 6.43.3, 6.131.1). Demokratia became a catchword during the Periclean era (440s-430s), when it came to be defined in opposition to oligarchia (oligarchy): in Pericles’ “Funeral Oration” Thucydides defines demokratia as a form of government “run with a view to the interests of the majority, not of the few” (Thuc. 2.37.1). This polarization of Demokratia and Oligarchia may have been represented in the visual arts, on the “Tomb of Kritias” [1]. This tomb, probably a group cenotaph, was decorated either with a sculpture group or a relief that showed Oligarchia setting fire to Demokratia with a torch. If the scholiast who noted this unusual tomb illustration was right, this earliest known personification of Demokratia would predate our first indication of the worship of Demokratia (in the 330s). Critias died in 403 in the battle against Thrasybulus that brought about the deposition of The Thirty Tyrants who were responsible for the oligarchy at Athens that year. Because of the change in the law codes, the concept of demokratia took on a new significance in the fourth century. The response of the democrats to the terrible reign of the The Thirty was the enactment of legislation which, for the first time, explicitly affirmed a democratic government, in the restored new democracy of 403/2. The decrees of the Boule and Demos were subordinated to the nomoi (established laws) (Andoc. 1.87; cf. Dem. 24.30), and the final validation of the nomoi was relinquished by the Assembly to the Nomothetai, a special board of individuals who had sworn to uphold the established laws (Dem. 20.92-94). Thus in the new democracy, the populace, the Demos, subordinated itself to the Laws themselves.

Demokratia was personified on several lost mid-fourth century art works. The most famous is a wall painting in the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios, in the Athenian Agora, by Euphranor of Isthmia, on which Demokratia appeared with Theseus and Demos [2]. According to Pausanias this painting showed that Theseus brought political equality to the Athenians. It is indeterminate whether this message was effected by the illustration of Theseus giving Demokratia (in marriage) to Demos, or Demokratia crowning Demos, as shown on the anti-tyranny decree from the Agora [3]. That relief, which Anthony Raubitschek thought might be a reflection of Euphranor’s painting, decorates a decree of the Nomothetai. The decree prohibited the Areopagus from functioning under a tyrant and reflects the paranoia of the democrats in the aftermath of Athens’ defeat by Macedonia in the battle of Chaironeia (338). Whether or not it mimicked the image on Euphranor’s painting, the illustration of Demos and Democracy on this relief is appropriate given the repeated pairing of the two political entities in the text of the attached decree.

An inscribed statue base, also found in the Athenian Agora, attests a statue of Demokratia that was set up in 333/2, coincidentally at the same time as the earliest attestation of Demokratia’s cult [5]. Despite this coincidence of dates, the statue base cannot be attributed with any certainty to the worship that Demokratia may have received in the Agora. Although Olga Palagia suggested that the monumental Agora torso [4] might have been this same statue of Demokratia (Palagia 1982, 111), she has since recanted, as the statue would have been too large for the base (Palagia 1994, 117).

Examples: Read about the evidence Scholia (Sch. Aeschin.). Pausanias (Paus.) . Oligarchia setting fire to Demokratia, on a grave monument (a statue or a relief), on the tomb of Critias at Athens, after 403 (Sch. Aeschin. 1.39). A wall painting in the Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios (Agora, Athens), by Euphranor of Isthmia, ca. 350 BCE, with representations of Demokratia and Demos (Paus. 1.3.3-4). Athens, Agora I 6524: a female figure crowning Demos on a relief from a decree of the nomothetai (SEG 12.87), an Athenian law against tyranny, 337/6. Agora S 2370: colossal statue of a goddess, ca. 335-330, perhaps Demokratia, Themis, or Tyche (shown above). Athens, EM 3913: inscribed base (IG II2, 2791) for a statue dedicated in 333/2, probably representing Demokratia. (Although the dedicatory inscription does not specify a statue of Demokratia, another inscription, Athens, EM 12749, a slightly later decree of 306/5, mentions a statue of Demetrios Poliorketes to be placed next to a statue of Demokratia in the Agora).”

Source of the text:  Amy C. Smith, “Athenian Political Art from the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE: Images of Political Personifications,” in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of January 18 2003. Contact: [email protected].  https://www.stoa.org/demos/article_personifications@page=all&greekEncoding=UnicodeC.html

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Presedintele Germaniei a atacat democratia si ordinea de drept din Romania

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„Dorim sa consolidam activitatea, de pilda, a DNA ca a treia putere in stat”, a spus presedintele Germaniei Joachim Gauck in cadrul conferintei de presa comuna cu presedintele Iohannis, pe data de 20 iunie 2016.

Aceasta afirmatie a presedintelui german incalca ordinea de drept din Romania si toata gandirea vestica democratica despre separatia puterilor in stat.

Intr-o democratie sunt trei puteri in stat care se controleaza reciproc: puterea legislativa (Parlamentul), puterea executiva (Guvernul+Presedintele) si puterea judecatoreasca.

Conform Constitutiei Romaniei, „Justitia se realizeaza prin Inalta Curte de Casatie si Justitie si prin celelalte instante judecatoresti stabilite de lege”.

Justitia, asadar, este facuta de judecatori si nu de catre procurori. Numai in gandirea de drept stalinista procurorii erau superiori judecatorilor.

CSM trebuie sa se autosesizeze pentru a apara independenta si reputatia justitiei din Romania. Este inadmisibil ca cineva din afara Romaniei sa sustina o asemenea enormitate juridica, sa faca DNA o a treia putere in stat, ceea ce ar conduce justitia romaneasca inapoi in perioada stalinista.

Vad ca niste trompete din presa citeaza mandri aberatia spusa de presedintele Germaniei. Asta va arata cat habar au aceste trompete despre democratie, stat de drept si separatia puterilor in stat.

Au trecut ore bune de la acest atac virulent la democratia din Romania iar societatea civila (sau in civil?!) din Romania inca tace. ONG-urile din Romania care spun ca apara justitia si statul de drept au aratat inca odata ca sunt preocupate doar de proiecte si consfatuiri, de unde sa mulga bani de la vestici, nu de apararea si promovarea democratiei in Romania.

Chris Terhes Romanian Community Coalition

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Festivals: Democratia

The goddess Democratia (Democracy) was honored in Athens on 12 Boedromion (Mikalson “Heorte” 213) beginning in the 4th century BCE; the goddess received sacrifices, was honored with feasts and processions, was served by a priest and commemorated with a statue. (Stafford “Personifications” 82).

In a modern context, Democratia could be honored during an appropriate existing civic and/or patriotic holiday such as Independence Day (the 4th of July) in the United States. It would also be appropriate to honor her on or near Election Day.

I’ve posted my ritual for Democratia at my other blog.

A PDF version of the ritual script is available here.

References

Mikalson, Jon D. “The Heorte of Heortology.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, North America, 23, feb. 2011.

Stafford, Emma. “Personification in Greek Religious Thought and Practice.” A Companion to Greek Religion, ed. Daniel Ogden. Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, 2007.