The Athenian Agora and the experiment in democracy

Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris.

[muscledavis]

I love how this ends:
"...and led to his execution."
*happy piano music starts playing

[Xfan]

I like how you inserted what you think it would have been like at the end. Great video!

[Lambonius]

You guys have done a fantastic job of helping the viewer to visualize walking through the ancient agora and connecting that with the significance of the philosophy and politics of the day.  Really great stuff here.  Thank you for doing it!

[zutrue]

You are leaving something out.
Pericles had a son with a woman who was not Athenian. He bent the rules to allow his son to be a citizen.
Actually, he requested of the Athenian demos to grant a request that his son be granted citizenship. And they
agreed because of Pericles's contribution to the greatness of the city of Athens.

[Sasha]

Yikes, that ending, lol. The procession to the Parthenon must've been a sight to see. I'm unfamiliar with the concept of a Meritocracy. The temptation to heroize it was definitely there, but I couldn't see how it'd function in the modern age. What kind(s) of merit is most meaningful and who gets to decide that? It'd be a mess.

[kp]

Beautiful, life changing, learned so much about the Athenian Agora.

[peroz]

Concise yet informative.Another great video!

[BrianHutzellMusic]

02:25 For more information on the speeches of Pericles, see Rebecca Goldstein’s “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away.”

[scoon]

Man i feel like we really lost aomething as a species that we no longer live the way the ancient greeks lived. I would go back to this era, hang out with antisthenes, socrates, diogenes etc