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Athens wasn't always a democracy, but when a tyrant overplayed his hand and a revolutionary proposed something better to the masses, it launched a new form of government that changed the Greek world.

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The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale

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Athens wasn't always a democracy, but when a tyrant overplayed his hand and a revolutionary proposed something better to the masses, it launched a new form of government that changed the Greek world.

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The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale