I read years ago that the ancient Athenians must have been extremely intelligent. Pretty amazing the number of world class thinkers from a city which never numbered more than 100,000.
Yah. 2100 years ago! Well, if you read what they wrote then, I mean. It's astounding.
Attic civilization fluorished for about 350 years. The Mayflower Compact is dated 1620. Do the math.
The first ancient and modern experiments with the proposition that ‘men and women are capable ot governing themselves.
(The Greek playwright, name escapes me sorry, even referenced Athens in his play ‘Clouds’ as “the home of the brave.”)
Cause of the fail? The Greeks themselves would probably blame ‘hybris.’
(Autocorrect thinks it was ‘hybrids.’)
Corialanus, what do you think? Yeah, that’s what I think, too:
‘Democrats.’
Oh yeah, Aristophenes. A conservative btw.