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

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

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

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

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

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and ...

Matthew Duncombe has recieved funding from the British Academy, Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the EU Erasmus+ Staff Mobility scheme and the Spanish Ministry ...