the greek people the roman people? >> guest: in many ways the athenian people in the sense of the popular ordinary poor people had the greatest authorities in athens. more of them than in rome. they played key roles for example in the court system sell all the courts were established by its huge popular jerries, as many as 500 people and no professional judges. and 500 in a particular case of people would decide what they thought the law required, and they were responsible for a lawmaking in athens and staffed what we think of as the civil service. a lot of bureaucratic functions establishing the weight send measures those things were staffed by ordinary people reporting into positions bought a lottery. one of the things i argue with sometimes modern political theorists exaggerated that too far so sometimes people save the ran everything by lottery and no division between rich and poor, the board did everything and that is an overstatement, the athenians have certain political roles by law or customer reserve for the r

that is true of greek democracy and true of the roman republic. her example is the roman republic, no law could be passed without it being passed by a popular assembly. if you think about the influence of the elite in rome in the senate for example that was significant. the senate can pass laws. they could make decrees. they could manage business. they could manage the budget, but if they want to pass a law they have to go to the people. it is interesting under the empire the idea that the people fundamentally i was optimal for studying terms of legitimacy continues so that the romans thought the people acclaimed each new emperor ended from that public acclamation that they are legitimacy derived and that idea in medieval and modern political science become an important underpinning for popular sovereignty. >> host: who are some of the leaders in the great development of politics? >> guest: for example, everything about athens about athens, the interesting thing is the athenian democracy emerges in stages. one of the most important figures in his

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a new book published by princeton called the birth of politics "the birth of politics: 8 greek and roman political ideas and why they matter". with a successful politicians. >> the greeks managed in different cities states to develop the world's first democracy produced works of art literature and political institutions, voting for example which remains fundamental to our politics today. and for 500 years, for another 500 years. dependent the measure of success. with the similarity between two deegan >> guest: interesting question. and setting the terms of legitimacy, and it is true in the roman republic, no law could be passed without being passed by the popular assembly. and in the senate for example, the senate couldn't pass laws, they could make decrees, manager business, the budget, but if they wanted to tackle the law, they had to go to the people landed is interesting that even under that ideas that the people fundamentally are responsible for setting the terms of legitimacy continues the romans fought the people claim the new emperor and it is from that public acclamation that th

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prove he is a threat to roman rule.. >> each day i hear a certain speaking. what is the message of this? >> oh, many things. nothing that concerns us. >> what? >> it involves the slaves. >> half of being a slave borders on what we do. >> not all we do. >> enough. what does he preach? >> that god wants the meek to inherit the earth. the poor to be rich, the weak to be strong. platitudes of popular appeal. >> none of it to be believed. >> in the face of history -- named after a conquerer. alexander also named for a conquerer. if there really is one single all powerful god as jesus and these jews claim, he clearly favors the strong over the weak. sins are as the gods intend. it's the meek such as this lovely creature will never inherit the earth. [ laughter ] >>> this man, jesus, he has drawn many to cast away their wealth to follow him. >> he speaks of a time soon coming when rich men will be poor, powerful men cast down and the temple itself destroyed by god's wrath. >> priest, you're right. nazarene is a mess. search am

this became the roman forum. they tossed out their king and established the relatively democratic roman republic. that began perhaps history's greatest success story, the rise of rome. from the start, romans were expert builders, and they had a knack for effective government. this simple brick building was once richly veneered with marble and fronted by a grand portico. it's the curia. the senate met here and set the legal standards that still guide western civilization. the reign of julius caesar, who ruled around the time of christ, marked the turning point between the republic and the empire. the republic, designed to rule a small city-state, found itself trying to rule most of europe. something new and stronger was needed. caesar established a no-nonsense, more-disciplined government, became dictator for life, and, for good measure, had a month named in his honor, july. the powerful elites of the republic found all this change just too radical. in an attempt to save the republic and their political power, a f

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down as we are now standing at the roman level pretty much where roman street level was 1,900 years ago. >>reporter: once the bones and tools and bits of leather and coins are carefully unearthed from the site they're taken to the museum of london archeology labs where the signist at thiseses there further study and catalog them and learn all sorts of things about history. each skeleton goes through the processing protocol. after pressure washing, they're put in a drying room for a few days and then cataloged. because the site cemetery yielded so many skeletons, more than 3,000, there are plenty of samples to look at to figure out how somebody lived and died in 1569. >> i want to see if they can identify people who maybe died from the plague and look at the path general itself from the teeth of these individuals and hopefully find out more about you infection diseases evolve. visitors are welcome. >> being in london you don't get to appreciate the history around you and it's right here. >>reporter: under the roman clay lies prehistoric gravel. there are not be human remain there is. tha

. >> skeletons of romans living in roman nearly 2,000 years ago found by archaeologists working on ainy square of europe's largest construction project. the experts are not sure exactly how the skulls ended up here. possibly washed up in an ancient river or slain gladiators from a nearby arena. over the last few months archaeologists have doug down through four layers of ancient history. they fount victor victorian halls and then mastiff medieval houses. >> we have dug through london, the medieval period the post rome area where the area was covered in marsh. and now down to the roman level where the row than street level was 1900 years ago. >> once the bones and tools and bits of leather and coins are carefully unearthed from the sites they're taken to the museum of london archeological labs where they study and catalog them and learn all sorts of things about history. >> each skeleton goes through the processing protocol. after pressure washing they're put in a drying room for a few days and then cataloged. because the site yielded so many skeletons more than 3,000 there are plenty

galilee, those areas were under roman occupation. could believe whatever you wanted to believe in the roman empire, you could practice your religion in whatever way you chose to practice your religion, but what romans didn't like is one charismatic figure, especially one who was messianic. >> fearing for jesus' safety, james and his family come to capernaum. >> i think it would be terribly frightening to have a member of your family get involved in that kind of religious environment, potentially leading up to violence. >> the family have hear these reports that jesus is preaching and casting demons out, and they think, has he gone mad. >> want to see jesus, it's his mother and brothers. >> when jesus gets word that his family has come for him, he refuses to see them. he asks, who are my mother and my brothers? here are my mother and my brothers. whoever does god's will is my brother and sister and mother. >> he's saying to his family, if you don't support me, i'm going to deny you too. >> he won't see them. >> it's almost like he dis

at the same time it's occupied by the romans.ve a lot of religious unrest are.un rest rest. >> unrest and fear. terrified, jesus's followerers huddled together in safehouses. >> they saw their leader was crucified and was executed as an enemy of the state. they were some of his followers. so is not surprisingly they are fearful that the roman authorities will find them as well. >> then, according to the acts of the apostles, the holy spirit came upon the disciples at pentecost. >> give us today our daily bread. >> and they were inspired to recruit more followers. >> now, spread his word system they go from the small cluster of dedicated followers to starting this big missionary movement. they do it through one-to-one contact, through inviting people to meals and telling them about jesus. >> join us. you, too, will receive the holy spirit. >> silence them now. >> as the christian movement grew, jesus's disciples faced dramatic moments. >> there are a lot of exciting things that happened, shipwrecks and magical handkerchiefs and th

>> he goes to see the roman procurator for judea, pontius pilate, to ask for the body. >> get out!late is an essential figure because only he as the roman procurator had the power to pronounce a death sentence. so it was he who ultimately is responsible for jesus' crucifixion and death. >> you've come for me, rabbi? >> pilate is famously anti-semitic. he doesn't like jews. he doesn't like being in judea. >> jesus of nazareth. i've come to ask for his body. >> we have to wonder what joseph was thinking. he's taking quite a risk. he's going to pilate and asking for the body of a convicted criminal, a criminal who is guilty of political sedition. >> i have a tomb. somewhere secure where we can prepare his body. >> by going to pilate and asking for this rather personal favor, it's almost as if he might be guilty himself. >> you can imagine it being a very tense meeting between the two men. >> yes? >> pontius pilate gives joseph of arimathea the body, but he probably thought he was letting some jewish custom play out. so far as he was concerned, that it was going to be the end of it. >>

the roman authorities, led by pontius pilate. >> grant each request. them from wrapping their fingers around us. >> and the jewish high priest were with trying to track down followers of jesus. the setting, jerusalem, in the land of judea, modern day israel. >> jerusalem is the capital of the jewish people. at the same time it's occupied by the romans. we have a lo are.un rest rest. >> unrest and fear. terrified, jesus's followerers huddled together in safehouses. >> they saw their leader was crucified and was executed as an enemy of the state. they were some of his followers. so is not surprisingly they are fearful that the roman authorities will find them as well. >> then, according to the acts of the apostles, the holy spirit came upon the disciples at pentecost. >> give us today our daily bread. >> and they were inspired to recruit more followers. >> now, spread his word system they go from the small cluster of dedicated followers to starting this big missionary movement. they do it through one-to-one contact, through inviting people to meals and t

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galilee, those areas were under roman occupation. you could believe whatever you wanted to believe in the roman empire, you could practice your religion in whatever way you chose to practice your religion, but what romans didn't like is one charismatic figure, especially one who was messianic. >> fearing for jesus' safety, james and his family come to capernaum. >> i think it would be terribly frightening to have a member of your family get involved in that kind of religious environment, potentially leading up to violence. >> the family have hear these reports that jesus is preaching and casting demons out, and they think, has he gone mad. >> want to see jesus, it's his mother and brothers. >> when jesus gets word that his family has come for him, he refuses to see them. he asks who are my mother and my brothers? here are my mother and my brothers. whoever does god's will is my brother and sister and mother. >> he's saying to his family, if you don't support me, i'm going to deny you too. >> he won't see them. >> it's almost like he

he's handed over to the romans for trial and crucifixion.t's here that the story of the shroud begins. all four gospels talk about the burial cloth in which the crucified body of jesus is laid to rest. the bible tells that the cloth was given by joseph of arimathea, a wealthy member of the jewish counsel. the sanhedrin. >> the gospels describe joseph of arimathea as being a sympathizer with the jesus movement. he's fascinated by jesus. so fascinated that even after the crucifixion, he wants to make sure that the right thing is done, that jesus gets the right burial. >> everyone who encounters jesus in the gospels is in some way transformed. they're either healed or they want to follow him. meeting jesus for one time was life changing. that probably changed joseph's life. >> but first, joseph needs permission to take jesus down from the cross. >> you think this is acceptable? >> he goes to see the roman pontius pilate to ask for the body. >> get out. >> pilate is an essential figure, because only he had the power to pronounce a death sentence

. >>> crews building the latest underground rail link have stumbled across roman remains dating back 2 years. the archeological studies are revealing more about the capital, the beginnings of it. jessica baldwin reports. >> reporter: skeletons of romans living in london nearly 2,000 years ago found by archeologists working on a tiny square of europe's largest construction project. the experts aren't sure exactly how the skulls ended up here possibly washed up in an ancients river or slain glad 80ors from a nearby arena. over the last few months archeologists have dug down six meters through four layers of london history. they put up cement pillar walls and then found victorian houses went further down and found a massive burial ground. >> we have worked our way down from that period the 16th and 17th centuries in london through the med evil-- the midedieval person where it was covered with a huge area of march be down stand teg roman level pretty much where the roman street level was 1900 years ago. >> once the bones and the tools and the bits of leather and coins are cable unearthed

but unlike most teens, roman isn't checking out facebook or e-mail. his first stop online is wikipedia, the website where you can find information on just about anything. >> i believe i was about 13 or 14 years old when i first began editing wikipedia. >> that's right -- roman is a contributor to wikipedia, and that's what's special about the website -- it depends on volunteers to add or edit material. >> i first started out by editing a few articles randomly, making a few grammatical adjustments, maybe a spelling change here or there. >> the word wikipedia is a blend of two other words. a wiki is a website where anyone can add or edit content, and "pedia" comes from encyclopedia. that's why wikipedia calls itself "the free encyclopedia anyone can edit." >> you've heard of h.g. wells, the great science-fiction author, he actually had an idea back in the 30s called the world brain, which was a worldwide encyclopedia organization whose whole purpose was to collect and classify and sort the information of the world. and wikipedia is sort of a realization

i'm christine romans. john berman has this monday off. let's start in nepal where there is untold devastation from saturday's huge 7.8 earthquake and the ongoing aftershocks. the latest government figures put the death toll at 3,482. another 6,500 injured. the number of casualties is sure to rise once their are counted in the remote countryside. the frequent aftershocks threaten to topple more buildings. terrified residents are sleeping in the streets in tent cities this morning. standing by live in kathmandu is suma udas. >> reporter: christine, behind me is nepalese police. they are all jumping in to help sift through the rubble. a lot using their bare hands. some have spades and some using steel plates they were able to find in the area. we have been here for three to four hours. four to five people on that temple trying to sift through the rubble. now everyone is just really jumping in. this used to be a three-story hindu temple dedicated to the hindu god. next to the temple at least six to seven other

i'm christine romans in new york. >> i'm john berman. 4:00 a.m. in the east. in baltimore this morning, in front of city hall where i'm standing a few hours ago, there was a large and very peaceful demonstration. this park around me was filled with people. they were serving food and they were gathered together in a peaceful way. it was nice to see. the crowds disbursed from the streets without incident. a calmer transition into the curfew period in baltimore. small handful of people here. as quiet as it was in baltimore, thousands of people on the streets across the country calling for justice in the death of freddie gray. now this is coming as we learn more. new information this morning about what may have caused gray's fatal spinal injury in police custody. we will get to that. a new report this morning in "the washington post." i want to bring in cnn's athena jones. athena you have been out the past few days in the peaceful demonstrations during the day and evening. last night the transition what a difference. >> another night of positive news. as you menti

number nine: jesus falls for the third time at this roman pillar. the last stations ten to the last stations ten to 14 are inside the church of the holy sepulchre, believed to be the exact place where jesus is crucified, dies, and is buried. the site was identified back in the fourth century by helena, mother of constantine, the first christian roman emperor. pilgrims have worshipped here ever since. but on the western side of the old city at the tower of david museum, we met archaeologist shimon gibson, who gave us a look at the evidence in a brand new exhibit that challenges the existing route of the via dolorosa. >> so this is it. >> reporter: this was once a one-story prison, long ago abandoned. no one thought very much about it. but then archaeologists started digging and kept going, uncovering layers of 2,800 years of history including what could be the foundations of the palace of herod the great. >> now these recent excavations really brought to light further proof of the existence of a monumental edifice which can be identified as the compo

i'm christine romans. >> and i'm john berman live in baltimore. it's wednesday, april 29th.he 4:00 a.m. in east. breaking overnight, curfew is still in place here in baltimore. as christi said about an hour from now. standing right behind me at baltimore city hall. this curfew began around 10:00 p.m. last night. it did begin with a tense standoff between police and protesters. or more than protesters people who intended to do a little bit of violence. they were throwing things at police. you can see right there. the confrontation was brief and it ended after police threw smoke bombs and pepper bullets from the special guns they had. this did cause people to clear out. an eerie quiet. until right now. it is calm here on the streets of baltimore. i want to bring in athena jones. athena we saw nothing like we saw monday night. >> that's right, we did not see burning buildings. we did not see pandemonium that we saw monday afternoon leading into monday night. the police commissioner feels that the curfew was a success. let's hear what he had to say. >> after the curfew went up w

i'm christine romans. john berman has the day afternoon.rthquake and the ongoing aftershocks. the latest death toll is 3,432. another 6,500 injured. that number of casualties is certain to rise once those killed in the remote mountain side villages have counted. terrified residents are living in the streets and in tent cities this morning. standing by live for us in kathmandu is cnn correspondent sumnima udas. she is a native of nepal. what can you tell us about the recovery at this hour? >> reporter: so very much underway christine. especially in the rural parts, we know a lot of helicopter authorities have been out around the epicenter to see if they can find any survivors. those helicopters, we have not received any new information as far as what they found there. we know the army is holding a press conference in the next hour. from what we are understanding right now, the government still doesn't have a complete picture of the true extent of the devastation. the magnitude of the devastation. behind me you can see people regular people f

a lone cherry bomb now and again, an awkward flurry of roman candles. harshed big time. whether or not this is a result of the larger geopolitical situation, the vibe towards this western film crew seems apprehensive, uncertain. the following day feels better, somewhat. fresh produce is for sale on tripoli streets. if you were a small restaurant or shopping for a big family, you'd bring cash, a wheelbarrow, and load up with what you need, but the revolution has brought changed tastes. libyans, especially young libyans, hunger for more than just freedom. ♪ they hunger for places like this. kentucky fried chicken. uncle kentucky fried chicken. >> uncle kentucky. >> okay. the colonel and his buddies, the king and the clown, have not quite made it here, given the uncertainty of the situation. so, in the meantime, places like this have been popping up. kentucky. awesome. ♪ >> do you know where kentucky is? >> kentucky is from usa. >> a part. yeah. >> yeah. >> this place is new? >> yeah, is new. before gadhafi -- >> impossible. >> yeah. and now, it's normal.

. >> i'm christine romans. welcome back john. it's wednesday, april 8th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. developing this morning, a south carolina police officer remains behind bars charged in the murder of an unarmed black man who was running away following a traffic stop. north charleston police officer michael slager arrested after this turning video emerged of the shooting itself. [ gunshots ] i want to bring in cnn's ed lavandera for the latest. >> reporter: john and christine, this dramatic video has ended with officer michael slager of the charleston police department being charged with murder. this comes incredibly quickly. this shooting took place saturday afternoon, just four days ago. and the state law enforcement department there in the state of south carolina has charged him with murder. in this video, it's dramatic you see in the initial moments of the video the victim in this case 50-year-old walter scott, very close to the officer but starting to run away. you see some objects fall to the ground. officer slager apparently said that he feared for his life or he felt like h

christine romans is off today. this morning, a new hot zone that puts u.s. assets in conflict with iran. u.s. war ships are patrolling the waters off yemen. personnel are prepared if necessary to board iranian arms if necessary. iranian officials are not backing down. the commander said we don't let anyone give us warnings or threats. our correspondent nick pat onwalsh has the latest. >> reporter: john a show of force here. there are about ten u.s. ships in the area. they will be joined by a carrier, "the uss theodore roosevelt." that boosts the u.s. fire power off the coast of yemen. that vital gulf up to the red sea key to u.s. interests, energy in particular. gas and oil transporting through that area. this is most about the arms blockade. the united nations security council resolution opposing that in yemen. and the reports that as many asinine iranian ships in the area bringing toward the houthi of the conflict inside yemen against the western backed president hadi and other groups. iran quite clear it is defiant and that runs the risk of the u.s. ships

>> in the first century, in the roman world, you weren't allowed to criticize the ruler.ke herod had his own private army. he was watching everything very carefully. >> the servant of god speaks plainly. >> herod was the worst kind of leader that you could hope for. he really needed to prove himself to rome and because of that he was a little bit overzealous, let's say. >> with the protection of rome, herod antipas rules galley with all the contempt of an autocrat. but herod has made his first serious miscalculation. he's turned his back on jewish law by marrying his brother's wife, herodeus. >> this was in violation of a law in leviticus which says a man must not uncover the nakedness of his brother's wife. >> it's the wife of your brother. >> john the baptist was very critical of the political regime. in particular, he was critical of herod for having married his brother's wife, and he was critical of their immorality and their treatment of the people. >> jews feel themselves oppressed by a foreign pow they're they can't do anything about. john gives them a vision of so

a viewing platform is open during lunch hour. >> under the roman clay lies pre-historic gravel.ere won't be any human remains interest. that's when it's archaeologists make way for a bigger dig. to build a railway ticketing hull to create another layer of london history. >> good to have your company on this news hour from me david foster and the entire news team. thank you for watching. . >> migrants come to sicily. many traffickers operate out of libya. >> with the libyan coast guards in the mediterranean sea searching for migrants who are trying to reach europe. ♪ >> good to have you with us. i'm david foster. you're watching al jazeera. coming up in the next 30 minutes. yemen's

were the greeks and romans successful politicians? >> guest: they were. the greeks managed in different city-state's to develop the world's first democracy. in athens they produced works of art, literature and great works of architecture and political institutions which remained fundamental to politics today and the romans for 500 years and that went down for another 500 years. depending on your measure of success they have a lot to offer. >> host: what were the similarities? >> guest: interesting question. really emphasized election and the fundamental role for the