334: Athens and the Birth of Democracy

“The speaker wrote about the alien and strange nature of the ancient world and the challenges of understanding it, particularly in relation to Athenian democracy.”

“The difficulty of getting to grips with what Deimos actually meant to the Athenians inspired the author to write Dominion.”

“A book about how the academic structure of writing history prevents us from understanding the ancient world.”

“A wonderful book about the Aztecs that includes imaginative prose to describe their world through their eyes.”

“A book in which the gods are real, Greece is weird, and people turn into bears.”