Politics Antiquity and Its Legacy - Paperbackby Kostas Vlassopoulos (Author) Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which 'gave' the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the globe is one of the most powerful driving motors in present day geopolitics: not least in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, a lively