{"id":17919,"date":"2022-09-19T13:27:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=215961"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:50:08","slug":"15-minutes-of-fame-kleisthenes-father-of-athenian-democracy","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/15-minutes-of-fame-kleisthenes-father-of-athenian-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"15 minutes of fame: Kleisthenes, father of Athenian democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Kev Lochun\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 19 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>It\u2019s the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast\u2019s 15th birthday, and to celebrate, we\u2019ve asked 15 historians to nominate a figure from history they think deserves their \u201815 minutes of fame\u2019. In this episode, Professor Michael Scott nominates Kleisthenes. He tells Kev Lochun about how this sixth-century BC aristocrat came to be regarded as the father of <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/ancient-greece\/what-is-democracy-definition-history-facts-solon-peisistratos-ekklesia\/&quot;\">Athenian democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-215961-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/09\/History-Extra202215MinutesE14-07950b7.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/09\/History-Extra202215MinutesE14-07950b7.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/09\/History-Extra202215MinutesE14-07950b7.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2\/>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;highlight\"><div class=\"&quot;highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<h4>Browse more episodes about <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/15-minutes-fame-podcast-series\/&quot;\">figures from history who deserve 15 minutes of fame<\/a><\/h4>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kev Lochun Published: Monday, 19 September 2022 at 12:00 am It\u2019s the HistoryExtra podcast\u2019s 15th birthday, and to celebrate, we\u2019ve asked 15 historians to nominate a figure from history they think deserves their \u201815 minutes of fame\u2019. In this episode, Professor Michael Scott nominates Kleisthenes. 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