The Story of Athens and Democracy

The story of democracy that began in ancient greece continues through to our modern world. The romans hated it, they called athenian democracy mob rule. Even when you get to the american foundling fathers, they are expressly against atheniandemocracy as an option for the modern world. So actually, our love of ancient greek democracy is a very recent thing indeed. And the reason i think people try to hide that all the time is that they don't want democracy to be such a fragile thing in our human story. They want it to be in but actually we need to remember it's a hell of a lot more fragile and a recent love affair than that.