“Studying the problems through a society which was sufficiently like our own to be intelligible but sufficiently unlike our own to stimulate thought is one of the ways in which history is useful.”
— P.J. Rhodes
“Timely and fascinating, this well informed book is highly readable and addresses questions of fundamental importance, as alive for us now as formerly they were for Greek democracies”
— Robin Lane Fox
“It’s hard to see how the comparison could have been more punchily or pointedly drawn than it is here by ancient historians and activists Alev Scott and Andronike Makris. Our democracies are let’s face it in crisis (good ancient Greek word). Reading this excellent book is a sure way towards mitigating, or even solving, a fundamental problem that affects and afflicts us all.”
