Democracy: a history of an idea
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Recorded at The Academy 2018, a residential weekend produced by the Academy of Ideas. More details here: http://www.academyofideas.org.uk/even...
Lecturer: Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College; A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus; author, Democracy: a life
From 500BC until 320BC, a radically democratic republic, which gave unprecedented weight to the decisions of ordinary men, flourished in the city state of Athens. Rarely have the people been as powerful as they were during this bright, brief bloom of *demokratia*. Yet its legacy is far from certain. For centuries, it was known through the eyes mainly of its critics, rather than its supporters. And later republican revivals during the Renaissance and the English Civil War drew on Rome rather than Athens. So what has been the Athenian legacy? What made its theory and practice of democracy so remarkable? And in the light now potentially cast by what we now know of the Athenian democratic ideal, how should we view democracy in the West today? Does it live up to its Ancient antecedent? Or does it fall short?’
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