After the holiday break, Tres con libros resumes its activity with essays. Greece in the air. The legacies and challenges of ancient Athenian democracy as seen from today's Athens.published by Acantilado in 2015, by the Hellenist and writer Pedro Olalla.
In this book, Olalla reviews the history of Athenian democracy to try to explain what was happening in the Greek crisis between 2010 and 2014, thus making a reading of today's society starting from classical Greece, where the first proposal in history for power to pass from the elites to the popular classes was born. As the author shows us, "the history of Athenian democracy is nothing other than the history of the progressive passage of power into the hands of the citizens". Today, when Western democracies seem to have moved away from this goal, perhaps it makes sense to tirelessly trace the city in which the first citizens were born and, with them, politics. (Source: Acantilado)
Pedro Olalla was at the Fundación Tres Culturas on 18 October, talking about his work with the cultural journalist Manuel Pedraz.
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- This book is the current reading of the Tres con libros club.
- The Tres Culturas library has a batch of 30 copies of this work available for collective loans.
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