In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special ...

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I want to ask him: How was the birth of Western democracy linked to the birth of Greek tragedy in ancient Athens? And was the decline of democracy also linked to the decline of tragedy?

It had three main aims: to document and try to explain the origins of democracy ancient Greek-style; to trace the evolution and eventual extinction of the ancient forms of democratic politics ...

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View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

Ancient Greece was in many ways ... Our modern concept of democracy is actually a degradation of the original Greek concept and has very little in common with it. Modern democracy is merely ...