Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Humanities West teams up with Stanford Humanities Center to present a unique lecture-performance event Democracy Then & Now: From Ancient Greece to This Week. Noted Stanford Classics professors Josiah ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

MCC Brussels hosted a discussion on Ancient Greece’s legacy and its critique as Eurocentric or tied to white supremacy.

President Trump recently scored a victory with the Supreme Court: The justices agreed to hear his case that his former role as president grants him immunity in the face of federal charges. Among the ...

Democracy is in trouble here and abroad. According to the highly regarded World Values Survey data, most Americans under 60 do not consider it “absolutely essential” to live in a democracy. In fact, ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

Pope arrives in Greece for second leg of trip Address centres on threats to democracy Warns against authoritarianism, populism Pope quotes ancient Greek philosophers and writers ATHENS, Dec 4 (Reuters ...

In contrast with the sometimes-obscure offerings of prior years, Moogfest’s free programming this year has a distinctly accessible cast. Nowhere is this clearer than in Astra Taylor’s new film, in ...