Step back in time and explore the stunning Acropolis, where democracy was born! 🏛️ Discover the beauty and history that ...

Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...

Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

The ancient Athenian philosopher Plato identified caring ... that our own founding documents suggest that the telos of our democracy is, as it was for the Greeks, the good of the people.

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

Yet Plato without Athens is like Dickens without London. Plato lived and died an Athenian. The “common thread” in his work, Ms. Atack writes, is his commemoration of the life and unjust death ...

More:Opinion: America has lost the most elementary understanding of requirements of democracy Religious subversion of the polity clearly happened in the ancient Athenian and Roman democracies.

emocracy is under threat around the world, but not because dictators are overthrowing elected governments and seizing power.

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...