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  • Roxana
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not what is described to be

don't get the book if you done specifically study the subject or are in super and I mean super love with historic events.

I expected more theory, more describing the concept of democracy but it seems more like a chronological book of democracy

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  • C. Broughton
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A very dry and academic but interesting overview

This book offers the listener a detailed consideration of the main cultural, organisational and procedural attributes of the ancient Athenian polis that underwrote the development and evolution of the Athenian expression of democracy over time.