The Origins of Politics and Democracies

In this video, I briefly present the origins of politics and democracies from Ancient Greece to show how the topic remains relevant while having evolved over time: from direct democracies to the rights of women and slavery, check it out! Learning Outcomes - The origin of politics - Characteristics of the Athenian democracy - Some distinctions with nowadays democracies - The importance of politics Timestamps 00:30 Introduction 00:52 Etymology of "politics" 01:23 Ancient Greece: The cradle of politics 01:55 The major differences with modern-day democracies 02:12 Etymology of "society" 02:30 The political communities in Ancient Greece 02:56 Direct democracy 03:20 Liberal electoral democracy 03:42 Inequal rights in Ancient Athens 04:11 Oligarchy 04:35 Conclusion 05:27 Curiosity of the day #understandingpolitics #theoriginsofpolitics #gianmarcomoise References At this link, you can deepen your knowledge on the Athenian democracy: https://www.ancient.eu/Athenian_Democracy/ Athens had an oligarchy immediately after the defeat in the Peloponnesian War: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thirty-Tyrants There is a good blog post on misogyny at this link: https://medium.com/@AmandaBurkovski/classical-sexism-what-was-it-like-being-a-lady-in-ancient-greece-ac6b0ef7f540 You can find Aristophanes’ "Women in Parliament" here: https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/WomenInParliament.php Here there is a source on slavery: http://factsanddetails.com/world/cat56/sub406/entry-6234.html The School of Life has a nice video on Hegel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5JGE3lhuNo About homosexuality in Ancient Greece: https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1242 To deepen on Greek homosexuality check Kenneth J. Dover "Greek Homosexuality": https://www.amazon.it/Greek-Homosexuality-Sir-Kenneth-Dover/dp/0715614649 At 3:16, for those who don’t know Kratos, he is the protagonist of a fortunate videogame series on PlayStation, God of War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_War_(franchise) At 4:46, I’m referring to the problems between Huawei and Android: https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/huawei/148102-what-does-huawei-s-google-ban-mean-for-your-huawei-or-honor-phone Acknowledgments The intro has been realized with footage from Pexels. Kelly Lacy: https://www.pexels.com/it-it/@kelly-lacy-1179532 Tetsuaki Baba: https://www.pexels.com/it-it/@tetsuaki-baba-1923091 Cottonbro: https://www.pexels.com/it-it/@cottonbro Big thanks to Wirestock that uploaded on Firepik the awesome pictures of Greek temples featured in the video: https://it.freepik.com/ The other pictures are taken from Pexels and the authors are Shinobu, Jimmy Teo, and Stas Knop.