The History of Athens and the Death Penalty

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Tyront was a much less loaded term for the Greeks than it is for us today. To the ancient Greeks, it didn't mean an oppressive demagogue who ruled unjustly according to his every whim. Most polices were ruled over by an autocrat called Atyron. Even though their rule was autocratic, most of them ruled according to an understood, written down, codified set of laws.

In this episode we begin a series on the beginnings of "Western" thought and science. We start with the catastrophy of the Mycenean Collapse, the Greek Dark Ages, and the Archaic Age, then continue with a discussion of Miletus and its most revered citizen, Thales. Thales has left his mark on the planet with his work. As a brilliant sage whose ideas were the beginnings of science, he helped set a trajectory for all future generations of philosophers and scientists.

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