Athens: A terrible place to build a monarchy

Here's episode 19 of the podcast, where we let you peek your head round our classroom doors here at History At Our House! One of the things we're hot on here is the significance of events. It's not enough to know that such-and-such a people believed this or that such-and-such an event happened. We want to make sure students understand why it all matters. The Athenians had what is in many ways a strange form of government (one that went through many changes in its lifetime). In the period looked at here, we look at the significance of a certain aspect of their form of government: namely that there existed "monarchs", but these were very different creatures from the Kings we know of Europe. Indeed, because of the limits placed on this monarch it was very difficult to build any lasting legacy as a monarch, to have an enduring thing which could be called "The Monarchy", as we'll see! Don't forget, if you're streaming via podbean, you can also

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Athens: A terrible place to build a monarchy is an episode from History At Our House: Ancient History by Scott Powell.

This episode is 7:38 long.

This episode was published on Aug 15, 2012.

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