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SUMMARY:From Democrats to Kings: the brutal dawn of a new world - Dr Micha
 el C. Scott\, Darwin College\, Cambridge
DTSTART:20091027T131000Z
DTEND:20091027T140000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Hilary Powell
DESCRIPTION:For centuries\, the golden age of ancient Greece has been the 
 5th century BC - the time of the Parthenon\, of the Athenian Empire and of
  the defeat of the Persian invasion. But in this talk\, I want to put the 
 spotlight on the century following these achievements - a time in which th
 e Greek world was turned brutally on its head from a world in which city-s
 tates\, and particularly democratic Athens\, were in charge\, to a world i
 n which an absolute monarch - Alexander the Great - held the reins of powe
 r. I look at how such a change came about in a staggeringly short 80 years
 \, and what an investigation into this world - 2500 years old - can do for
  us today as we face up to the stresses and strains of the 21st century.
LOCATION:Entertaining Room\, Darwin College
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