Lecture 2 - The Glory that was Greece

This lecture originally airedon CBC Radio One on November 11, 2014.

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In ancient Greece, the great general Pericles set the stage for a new idea in the world: democracy, and its necessary inhabitant, the citizen. Greek society was far from the democratic ideals of today there were profound class restrictions around who could be a citizen but many of the ideals of that time do hold true today.

Perhaps not coincidentally, as an offshoot of the democratic idea, Pericles female companion Aspasia seems to have been readily accepted as an equal to the men in her social class.



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