A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities. * Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters--one Greek, one Roman--to highlight comparisons between cultures * Examines the types of relationships that sustained participatory communities, the challenges they faced, and how they responded * Sheds new light on participatory contexts using diverse methodological approaches * Brings an international array of scholars into dialogue with each other