CSPAN2 Book Discussion On The Birth Of Politics March 29, 2015
Of Civil Service so a lot of order purecratic functions, running the city harbors, establishing the weights and measures. Those things were staffed by ordinary people who were put into position by lottery. But one of the things i argue is that sometimes modern political theorists exaggerate that too far. They sometimes people say they ran everything by lottery, and there was no division between rich and poor. The poor did everything. And thats actually an overstatement. Actually the athennians had certain roles which by law or custom were reserved for the rich but the poor could still hold the...