Lecture Series: Democracy in Ancient Athens

Slater Museum is fortunate to have a range of statues that reflect how Greeks developed their ideas of community in the 6th, 5th and 4th Centuries BCE.  In 1887, the museum's creators selected statues both for their artistic merit and for the evidence they could offer students about civic culture in Greece and in the Roman Empire. This lecture touches on how ancient myths, religious customs, literature, art and architecture created a shared cultural fabric that established the first seeds and then led to the flowering of democracy in Ancient Athens.