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Everyone knows that Athens is considered the 'OG democracy', your comment reads as condescending.

If you continue learning about history, you might happen to notice that there appear to be gaps between how societies self-describe and the actual values they live by. This was well-known by contemporaries at the time, as Athens was described "in name a democracy but in fact governed by its first citizen."



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