The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong
- Written by Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
Athenians voted for Socrates to be put to death.Jacques Louis David, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad.
According to Dio, one...
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