Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy ... lifting of emergency martial law share some similarities with direct democracy in Athens. In direct democracy, a leader already ostracized ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient ... democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece. Image caption, The Parthenon temple was built for the Greek ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

Historian Bettany Hughes explores the realities of ancient Athenss ... and place Although ancient Athens still retains its reputation as a pure and shining democracy its history tells a more ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the ...