Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes has been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy – for which ...

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

That telos is broadly understood in ancient Greek texts to be the good of the ... own founding documents suggest that the ...

As Americans go to the polls Tuesday, the U.S. presidential standard bearers describe a nation whose very soul hangs in the ...

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece. London ... and William Kelly Simpson. 1998. The Ancient Near East: A History, 2nd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Hansen, Mogens Herman. 1991. The ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece. Image caption, The Parthenon temple was built ...

While no one place can be called the "mother" of democracies, Indian democracy is as ancient as Greek democracy, and both evolved independently.

Most historians place the birthplace of democracy in ancient Greece and also pinpoint it as the location where voting first took place. It didn’t encompass everyone – women and slaves were among those ...

As we all know, today even Greece has given up the direct democracy its ancestors invented. In fact the ancient Athens’ Ecclesia-style democracy can’t be found anywhere in the world.

Calling all history buffs! Add this underrated town near Naples to your bucket list to see ancient Greek ruins in an ...

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 ...