La democracia en Atenas

It was the first democracy in history, at least the first for which we have documentary evidence, and it was not, as is often believed, a brief and failed experiment. Democracy in the ancient Greek polis of Athens endured for more than a century and served as a model for other cities of its time. They called it democracy because that word literally means "power of the people." But the people alone were not enough. To make it work, they had to create a handful of institutions, brought to life by figures who have gone down in history and who have inspired Western leaders for the last two centuries. The most famous of them all was Pericles, an Athenian politician and general who governed Athens during its golden age in the 5th century BC, precisely when the city became the hegemonic power in the Aegean and had to contend with the Achaemenid Persian Empire. But democracy not only had to fight against the Persians, it also had to contend with its own internal enemies who attempted coups to reimpose oligarchic tyranny. Athens and its unique system of government resisted them all, except for one who would ultimately put an end to Athenian independence and its democracy. The one who delivered the final blow to Athens was Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great, who subjugated the city in the 4th century BC. But the example remained, waiting for others to learn from it. Thousands of years would pass before Western Europe once again looked to classical Athens for inspiration for the political revolutions of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Today on The Counter-History, we're going to travel back 2,500 years to delve into the origins and development of democracy in Athens, the oldest in the world and the one that has had the greatest influence on posterity. On The Counter Seal: The Independence of New Granada Spanish-Goths in Al-Andalus The Conquest of the West Support The Counter Seal on: · Patreon...   / diazvillanueva   · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contrac... · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Follow me on: · Website... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter...   / diazvillanueva   · Facebook...   / fernandodiazvillanueva1   · Instagram...   / diazvillanueva   · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/1472764... · Pinterest...   / fernandodiazvillanueva   Find my books on: • Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-V...