The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...

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 could be ...

Athenians voted for Socrates to be put to death. Jacques Louis David, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931 The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

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 December the Supreme Court in the American state of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...

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. I would add ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad.

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 could be ...