[Abridged] Presidential Histories

Democricide season 1: Who Killed Athenian Democracy? Episode 2

Kenny Ryan

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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