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Plato: life of the week
History Extra podcast
Influence of Autocratic Power in City Politics
Tyrants in ancient Greece like Dionysius of Syracuse relied on physical force and paranoia to maintain power. Dionysius leveraged his position to keep Syracuse free from Carthaginian domination and proclaimed the city as the most powerful in the western Greek world. Plato believed that influencing one person with absolute autocratic power was more pragmatic than trying to influence a city as a whole.
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