Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages by Robert Garland

Athenian Democracy: An Experiment for the Ages

The Great Courses: Ancient History

Robert Garland

12 hours, 40 minutes first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
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Roughly 2,500 years ago, the elite classes of Athens gradually ceded power to the inexperienced masses, thus establishing a radical democracy in which power derived from the votes of everyday citizens. The sequence of events that led to this devel...

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