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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 7 2004, 11:18 PM
Relatively new concept?
What the hell was that thing in ancient Greece then?
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I dunno Cow, was Greece a successful democracy? Do we really know if Greece was indeed a democracy, or just published as a democracy? And if Grecian democracy was so great, why did it not survive and why was it not adopted around the known world? I'm not sure Greece was a democracy as we know it today? I would think it was more like the Roman form of government (appointed aristocrats who voted on issues) than what we believe democrasy is today. I'd have to leave that to the scholars who know Ancient Greece a little better than me.