Who Killed Athenian Democracy, Episode 2

Athenian Democracy was established, but who cared? Compared to the mighty Persian empire, the Greek city states were a bunch of backwaters. And that's how history may have remembered them, if not for one suicidally ambitious Greek, and one desperately crafty athenian who saved his city from destruction.

Sources:

• The Peloponnesian War, by Donald Kagan
• Lords of the Sea, by John R. Hale