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Ancient Athenian Democracy

You're Dead to Me

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The History of Democracy

Sir Michael offers his thoughts on ancient Greek democracy. He says it's in a constant evolutionary process of changing, tweaking and getting better. But then the world around them changes beyond all recognition -democracy is no longer an option for them. And so they give power to basely miny tyrants who are chucked out very quickly.

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