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Democracy, from the Greeks to Brexit
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Democracy, from the Greeks to Brexit

with Paul Cartledge

Paul Cartledge is a professor emeritus at Cambridge. We talked about how weird Sparta really was; whether the Greeks really invented democracy; and what democracy means (and might mean) in modern times.

Paul's book Democracy: A Life - https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Life-Paul-Cartledge/dp/0190866276

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