Athens was now an oligarchy ... replacing every officeholder with a proponent of direct democracy. Phocion was charged with treason and drank his hemlock in public. Disgrace followed him into ...

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and to use the dialogue form so as to obviate the direct expression of opinions that might get a philosopher in trouble. Plato’s well known skepticism of democracy seems the result of his fear of what ...

The leaks went viral and a call was made by the Association of Relatives of Tempi Victims for protests against the right-wing New Democracy ... were held in Athens, outside the parliament in ...

In ancient Athens ... It emphasizes the direct expression of the people’s will, often through electoral processes that produce clear winners and losers. Democracy produces decisions reflecting ...

Still, he points to ancient Greece, and the commentary of Thucydides, the Athenian historian who lived ... where proponents of democracy overthrew a wealthy ruling class and put many of them ...