They formed a popular assembly of their own and planned to sail from their base off the coast of Turkey at Samos to re-establish democracy at Athens. However, Alcibiades, an unlikely champion ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...

nationalistic mob that might fall prey to populism, scare stories, and tabloid headlines. RELATED: Mass Delusion among Greece’s Far Left Hannan, familiar to National Review readers as one of his ...

This Saturday falls on April 19, the day that colonial Americans confronted British regulars at Lexington Green and Concord ...

it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece.

Plato, son of Ariston and Perictione, has been called the greatest of Greek philosophers by his admirers and chastised as the worst anti-democrat by his detractors. Socrates’ most brilliant student, ...

Finally, our language has roots in ancient Greece, from the individual ... who should sit on its ruling council. This was ‘democracy’ or ‘rule by the people’. All 30,000 citizens were ...