• Director: Timothy Copestake
  • Release Year: 2007
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English

Athens: The Truth About Democracy (Athens: The Dawn of Democracy)

Description

This new perspective on historical Athens discusses the fact that the democratic rights of a few were supported on the backs of many–those female, poor, or enslaved.

Themes

Ancient Greece, Western Civilization, Political systems, Democracy, Legends and mythologies, Aristocracy, Slavery, Social conditions, Historiography, Hagiographies