The Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks by English historian Basil Edward Hammond (1842-1916) is a brief outline of early political systems in Ancient Greece, with an evident emphasis on Athenian democracy. The chapters in this book are simply a broadened version of a course of lectures in which European Political Institutions, were treated historically and comparatively. The work contains a description and examination of Greek governments and a little amount of matter which is essential as an introduction to an analysis of European governments in general.

Content includes:

The Aryan Races

A Classification of European Political Bodies

Greek Political Institutions. Heroic Monarchies

Sparta

The Greek Citie

Aristotle's Classification of Polities

The Achæan League