Athens: Birthplace of Democracy?
The Ancients
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The Different Types of Democracy in Ancient Greece
In Athens, as part of its ideology, believed in transparency and equality of speech. They put up either on the Acropolis or a religious inscription that is related to one or other of the gods or goddesses. But elsewhere down below the Acropolis there would be a whole load of the...Either on bronze or more frequently on marble, on stone. Any Athenian citizen going about his daily business in the Agorrah,. which was a commercial and illegal, as well as a political space could take time to read what he had decided.
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