By Han XiaoOver 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 ...

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.

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 ...

The olive tree in ancient Athens was safeguarded by strict laws, highlighting its role as a sentinel of Athenian prosperity ...

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

Recent debates over the meaning of “one person, one vote” and the lessons of ancient Greek democracy for the modern world highlight an important truth about democracy: it can’t be democratic ...

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.

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 ...

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.

That question was taken seriously in ancient Athens, where a 403 BC decree instructed one of the traditional governing councils, known as the Council of the Areopagus, to “Take caring charge of ...

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 ...