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Episode 4: Expert Opinion - Paul Cartledge

This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama

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Sparta and Democracy

Athens and sparta are often portrayed as, you know, fire and water. Is that a fair description when it comes to free speech as well? I mean, demosthenes seems to make that very point in one of his speeches. Sparta was ultimately a military society. So the spartans and military society, topped down, didn't have the notion of equality fund mental. And they also didn't have various things that the athenians thought were central to doing democracy. For example, there were no popular jury courts in sparta. There was nochoosing of officials by the use of the random lottery,. which is, of course, a very galitarian system

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