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

‘Galaxy’, ‘Europe’, ‘Democracy’, even ‘Acrobat’ - they’re all based on Ancient Greek words ... It’s the form of government that allows people to vote on who gets to be in ...

As a system of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world. However, Sparta's dominance was not to last.

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.

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 ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...