Athenian democracy
199What's so great about So-crates?
22 Jul 2024
2:27¶ 13
“So we’ve passed out of that briefly into the thing that history books hail as the Golden Age of Greece, the beginning of freedom…”
2:56¶ 14
“If I recall right, the citizens were about 30% of the population. They were males past the age of majority, property owners of some…”
3:24¶ 15
“Americans are really shady on this, what democracy is. Democracy meant you got into the same room where you can look each other in…”
198The Pre-Socratics
15 Jul 2024
21:54¶ 73
“Athens was becoming a democracy. We hear a lot about Athenian liberty, Greek liberty and democracy and all that. That was for a generation…”
23:03¶ 75
“True democracy – and this is something that Americans don’t understand – means you’re all in the same room and you’re all voting in…”
22:37¶ 74
“Women mostly stayed at home and stayed out of the way. The older historians basically look at the Greeks as treating their women as…”