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The ancient Greeks invented democracy – and warned us how it could go horribly wrong

By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia

Democracy has been with us since it was founded in Athens in the 6th century BCE. Like some of today’s voters, the ancient Greeks were also divided over its merits.

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