Zócalo Public SquareCleon – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Ancient Greek Demagogues Might Sound Familiar in 2016 https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/06/25/ancient-greek-demagogues-might-sound-familiar-in-2016/viewings/highlight-videos/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/06/25/ancient-greek-demagogues-might-sound-familiar-in-2016/viewings/highlight-videos/#respond Sat, 25 Jun 2016 07:01:43 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=74606 At “How Does Democracy Survive Demagoguery?”, a Zócalo/Getty Villa “Open Art” event at the Getty Villa in Malibu, Eric Robinson, an Indiana University historian of ancient Greece and Rome, describes just how familiar Greek demagogues Pericles and Cleon can seem compared to today’s politicians.

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