“What happened to the tiny city states of ancient Greece? There were hundreds of them, and they fought for hundreds of years to maintain their autonomy […]. But the price of that was they could just be snaffled, they could be gobbled up by a powerful neighbour, which is what the Romans did.” Ash Sarkar in conversation with historian Roderick Beaton. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.

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