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June 14, 2025 21 mins

Please enjoy this preview of my new podcast, Democricide.

Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. And that's how history may have remembered them, if not for one suicidally ambitious Greek, and one desperately crafty Athenian who saved his city from destruction.

Sources: 

  • The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
  • Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale


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