In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. View on euronews ...

The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.

Democracies are vulnerable political systems. Democratic governments have frequently given way to authoritarian regimes, and ...

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 ...

it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles ...

Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

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 ...

Athens feels like stepping back into the birthplace of democracy, philosophy, and Western civilization. Here is where ancient ruins, mythology, and cultural legacies blend with the energy of a ...