15 minutes of fame: Kleisthenes, father of Athenian democracy
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Democracy in Ancient Athens
Democritos was a popular boy's name in ancient athens, to call your kid democracy. Some people would even talk about the accident of the development of democracy in ancient at Athens. Given that accidental nature, how does democracy survive its very beginning? Is there anything we can say as to why the other aristocrats have suddenly accepted having all these ovoices?
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