Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have accounts of, how it was born, and how it evolved 2500 years ago in ancient Athens. Address 1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley ...

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...

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It was an action that would have huge consequences, and many historians believe it to mark the defining moment of Athenian democracy.

The campaign was a disaster. Plato means Athens, and Athens means democracy, but Plato was no democrat. The “manipulation of demotic pseudo-knowledge,” Ms. Atack writes, encouraged political ...

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The decline of Athenian democracy helped pave the way for the authoritarian utopianism of Plato that influenced political thought for millenniums. Still, there appears to be a link between the ...