Confucius: "If one wants to run, they must learn how to walk. If one wants to teach, they must learn. If one wants to define the future, they must study the past." 

This Series' basic question is how/why civilizations fail. Let's look to our past, and the fall of Athens. To do this, we interview Professor Paul Iversen the Chair of the Classics Department at Case Western Reserve University.

We learned that the parallels to today's society are revelatory.