We recognize ancient Greece as the birthplace of democracy, but what did democracy really mean to the Greeks?
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The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy
Cite this page as: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris, "The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy," in Smarthistory, December 15, 2015, accessed June 6, 2020, https://smarthistory.org/the-athenian-agora-and-the-experiment-in-democracy/.