Asediados : Cómo los mitos griegos nos enseñan a combatir la tiranía

A society is defined not only by its government or its laws, but also by the behavior of its members. Just as a dictator's personality leaves its mark on his regime, the character of the citizenry shapes democracy. If the majority lacks this emotional education, institutions become mere tools of authoritarianism. The literature of Homer, Aeschylus, and Sophocles identified abuse as the eternal byproduct of power and promoted a new and radical democratic attitude. With the clarity of Mary Beard, the rigor of Carlos García Gual, and the beauty of Irene Vallejo, the American classicist Emily Katz Anhalt shows us how the epic and tragic stories of ancient Greece, centuries in advance, fostered the cultural conditions for the flourishing of the Athenian democratic experiment that underpins our political conception: a fragile system of institutions and values ​​challenged today by the would-be tyrants of the 21st century.