Kagan says ... ... modern democracy is "broader but shallower" than Classical Athenian democracy... do you agree? Think about the legacy of Socrates and his trial in the development of our modern democratic ethos. Let's explore! ... the Hellenistic Age "speaks to us less fully and vividly" than the Age of Pericles because "it had no historian to compare with Herodotus and Thucydides"... do you agree? What might be another barrier to Americans identifying with the Hellenistic cities, leagues, and monarchies?