Solon's laws in ancient Athens protected slaves' rights, revealing a unique approach to slavery in the society of the ...

Olive trees in ancient Athens were protected by tough laws, highlighting its importance as a sentinel of Athenian prosperity and identity.

Ancient critics of Athenian democracy, such as Plato and Thucydides, argued that the state was dysfunctional because the citizens who ruled it through direct democracy were often too ignorant and ...

Introduced in 508 BC by Cleisthenes, known as the “father of Athenian democracy”, the procedure, called ostracism, sought to guard Athenians against the conniving ways of corrupt men.

Greek city-states were governed by a range of regimes, but, by the fourth century BCE, the typical Greek city-state was, by world historical standards, very democratic.

Without financial innovation, the experiment of democracy in ancient Athens may not have succeeded. The historian Hans Van Wees, a professor at University College London, is an expert on the ...

Democracy died in ancient Athens after the plague. America must learn from this fate We the people remain unhealed, our wounds still open, and our democracy under threat. By Jessica Kimpell Johnson ...

Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of ...

In form, modern American democracy is only loosely related to its historical origins in ancient Athens, and it lacks the social values that ancient Greek democracy encouraged, Mr. Samons says.

Political scientist Josiah Ober argues that the successes of ancient Greek democracy can serve as a model for the democratic governments of today. But it may not be easy to apply ancient lessons ...

At Prawfsblawg, legal scholar Paul Gowder has an insightful post on some of the reasons why the study of ancient Athenian democracy is relevant to modern debates about law and politics.