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RE: LeoThread 2025-02-21 10:06

in LeoFinance8 months ago

One assumes that when the true history of antiquity became widely known during the enlightenment, popular opinion of the ancient political systems was equal to that held today. This is not so. In those days, Sparta was seen as the model political system – structured, authoritarian, and efficient. Democracies, like Athens, were seen as idealistic examples of excess power given to the common people.