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24 сентября 2014 г., 13:00
The ancient Greeks thought that their own respect for custom and common law, as against tyrannous caprice, was a unique product of their culture. But actually it was a witness to their continuity with an older village democracy we first meet in Mesopotamia: an institution that seems to precede all more sophisticated exercise of control by dominant minority, imposing their alien traditions or their equally alien upper-class innovations upon a subjugated if acquiescent population.
