The Greeks had turbulent politics both before and after the democratic period. I'm kind of impressed by the resilience of Athenian democracy. Plato's a great e

The Greeks had turbulent politics both before and after the democratic period. I'm kind of impressed by the resilience of Athenian democracy. Plato's a great example of how much better antidemocratic views seem to have survived subsequent transmission. Whenever we read historical judgments instead of facts we need to keep in mind we're seeing what managed to keep getting copied over almost two millennia until the printing press, almost all of the time under ideologies where the prince's word was law.