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Ancient Athenian Democracy (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
The Nuanced Window of Democracy
I'm delighted by the idea of paying people to come in and do Georgia and York vote. I think particularly in America, that's one of the things that is really playing against them. The Romans hated it, they called Athenian democracy mob rule,. They couldn't stand the idea of letting everyone have a say for centuries afterwards. So actually when did we start re-thinking about how great Athenian democracy really was? In the 19th century after the Greek War of Independence. Everyone started falling in love with ancient Greek culture, philosophy, wisdom and politics. Our love of ancient Greek democracy is a very recent thing indeed. People try to hide that all the time because they don't want
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