Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide.
Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. And that's how history may have remembered them, if not for one suicidally ambitious Greek, and one desperately crafty Athenian who saved his city from destruction.
Sources:
- The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
- Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale
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