Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes, based on location, and putting an end to the rule of nobility. Even though ...

The temple of Hephaestus, as seen from the Ancient Agora where the tribes of Athens used to meet. Public domain Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by ...

This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, writes Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll.

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and ...

Yet Plato without Athens is like Dickens without London ... replacing every officeholder with a proponent of direct democracy. Phocion was charged with treason and drank his hemlock in public.

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 ...

The Greek Festival of Sydney for 2025 officially kicks off this weekend with its standard two-day celebration at Darling ...

Yet Plato without Athens is like Dickens without London. Plato lived and died an Athenian. The “common thread” in his work, Ms. Atack writes, is his commemoration of the life and unjust death ...

The end of the Gupta Era marks the end of Classical India. Thus, to understand and reconstruct the theory and practice of statecraft in ancient India, the primary requisite is to discard the shoddy, ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an aqueduct built almost 2,000 years ago. The Greek capital, one of Europe's ...