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I recently discovered Frederick Douglass's 'What to a slave is the 4th of July?' It made me wonder: DID states with slavery think their slaves were, or ought to be, patriotic and attached to national institutions/symbols?
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In Ancient Athens, women were very cloistered and kept out of the public sphere and this was seen as a civic virtue. But Athenian plays such as Medea, Antigone and Lysistrata have powerful female characters, including cases of explicit challenge to the status quo in terms of gender relations. Why?
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Athens is sometimes referred to as the 'source' or 'mother' of democracy. But did representative democracies that arose in the modern era in any real sense 'descend' from Athenian experience and example, or did they develop independently?
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In Classical Athens, armies and fleets consisted of citizens, who could not vote while they were on campaign. Did this affect the decisions of the democracy?
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In Aeschylus the Furies seem to be embodiments of vengeance and their position is justified and to some extent sympathetic. In Virgil they seem to be more simply malign. Do these represent evolving (or Greek v Roman) concepts of the Furies? Or is it just specific literary purposes of the writers?
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Peter Heather argues that after the seventh century Constantinople 'became in many ways an unwilling satellite state of the Islamic world, no longer substantially in charge of its own fate'. Do you agree?
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Why did so few people vote in elections after the French Revolution? Were they scared of being identified if the voted 'the wrong way'
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There's obviously a lot of appetite for a book like Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States'. But I've also seen that book criticised a lot (including on here). Is there a similarly accessible book seeking to tell the same stories with the same broad scope but in a less biased way?
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