Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...
Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.
Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. View on euronews ...
In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...
Three Greek opposition parties vowed Friday to challenge the country’s center-right government with a censure motion over its ...
A second round of voting in Greece's presidential election on Friday failed to elect a new president, as no candidate received the required 200 votes. Constantine Tasoulas, nominee of the ruling New ...
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 ...
The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.
The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...
Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...
Albeit that probably isn't the hardest task considering what a great horror setting the dark winding and forgotten corridors of an ancient pyramid make—I wish settings like this one were ...