
What America’s Founders Learned from Antiquity
American Ambivalence toward Ancient Greece
Documentary · Jul 19, 2024 · 31 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E5: Investigate Americans’ perceptions during the founding era of ancient Greece. Note their selective admiration for Spartan military history, and their wariness of the perceived instability of Athenian democracy. Witness the gradual transformation of these perspectives into the modern view of Greece as the cradle of democracy and Western civilization.
Documentary · Jul 19, 2024 · 31 min