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

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

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 ...

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 ...

Or that ancient Greek “democracy” didn’t extend to women and slaves, two-thirds of the population. Besides, lots of other ancient civilisations independently “invented” philosophy ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

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 ...