Was the average voting citizen of ancient Athens well-versed

>>2796782
Meme, the voters were all about their gimmedats and easily swayed by emotion.

>>2796799
I see nothing has changed.

>>2797471
They once ordered the mass slaughter of an island polis for standing up to them or something, sent a fleet to do it and then 2 days later regretted and overturned the decision. They sent another fleet after the first and managed to prevent the slaughter just in the nick of time.

They were total morons led by the nose in the moment.

>>2797513
It was the lesbians and they still killed the 1000 ringleaders lmao.

>Yfw the Greeks made fun of women able to vote in a play where they destroy the city with ridiculous policies
>Yfw this is happening right now with similar effects.

Have a look at how successful Aristagoras was in persuading the Spartan king, and then the Athenians, to support the Ionian revolt & paint a target on their own back as far as Persia was concerned.

Basically Athens democracy was like the Monorail episode town hall meeting.

>>2796782
Relatively speaking, certainly. But remember that this was a time when a single person could master large portion of the combined human knowledge. Today a high-school graduate probably knows more about mathematics than the best philosophers in the ancient greece did - remember that a lot of shit like logarithms, calculus, complex numbers, etc. hadn't been invented yet. And the same applies to all scholarly subjects.

>>2797513
jew spotted