15 minutes of fame: Kleisthenes, father of Athenian democracy
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History Extra - 15 Minutes of Fame
Clysenes deserves his 15 minutes of fame. He came up with two brilliant new ideas for how to structure athenian society. Every citizen is going to be thrown into a randomized, locked ballot and then take up some governing positions. That was professor michael scott speaking to kevlochen. Michael's a classicist from the university of warwick. His books include ancient worlds, an epic history of east and west.
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