Andrew Schulz

And so one of the reasons for that is the Athenians and the Greeks in general have a very young memory.

There's an Egyptian saying that there are no old Greeks because the Greeks can't remember their ancient past, whereas the Egyptians have this continuous legacy going all the way back to 3000 BC.

But the Greeks fall apart at the end of the Bronze Age.

Which would be what time?

uh like let's say 1150 bc okay um so there's this huge bronze age collapse the greeks are hit the hardest and you have these you have these massive civilizations like uh okay agamemnon and the movie troy waging the war so those are the mycenaeans that's this massive greek bronze age empire and it all collapses and falls apart the greeks fall into this bronze age they hardly remember their ancient past anymore and so

Throughout Greece, as it rises again, each little place has their own new philosophy.

And the Athenians rise.

I think that they have kings at first and then they have like political tyrants.

But then the people overthrow the political tyrants and they create a new form of government, a democracy.

Democracy, yeah.

Now, this is an all-out democracy.

So this is literally straight up just like individual votes, right?

Or let's say men who own property or free men or something like that.

But it's like individual votes.

And so you have this whole new philosophy.

And that is why...

You know, that revolutionary thought that came from the ancient world that people could be free and rule over themselves was so profound that we still erect our capital buildings in that Athenian... In honor of that.

Yeah, in Athenian style.

Yeah.

It's all Athenian.