The Parthenon has long been upheld as a symbol of democracy. The ideal of rule ... And we should not forget Sparta, another ancient Greek city-state with its own distinctive culture and values ...

The Parthenon stands as an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and its democratic ideals. Perched majestically on the Acropolis ...

In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special ...

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Payne read and spoke Greek and were enamored with ancient Greek democracy ... became a banned symbol after the ...

In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober - a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy - argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that ...

The ancient Greeks famously invented democracy. But what was Greek democracy actually like - and how was it different from the 21st-century kind? What's in a word?We may live in a very different ...

In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober – a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy – argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that ...

The ancient Greeks famously invented democracy. But what was Greek democracy actually like - and how was it different from the 21st-century kind? What's in a word?We may live in a very different ...