A dynamism of optimism and enterprise fired each man with belief in himself and his gods. Each citizen-warrior who had endured trial of arms in the phalanx or pulled an oar under fire on the sea now deemed himself deserving of full inclusion in all affairs and discourse of the city. That peculiar Hellenic form of government called democratia, rule of the people, had plunged its roots deep, nurtured by the blood of war;
