The principles of the Athenian democracy, including citizen participation, equality and free speech, are still what we need ...

Ancient Greek general Phocion, elected 45 times for his leadership, achieved major military triumphs but met a tragic end.

In the following interview, he also dispels some long-held notions about ancient Greece's most legendary ... he needed the approval of the Ekklesia, the assembly of the citizens of Athens (that ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... be approved by the Spartan assembly.

Ancient sources provide the story’s bare bones, but a series of archaeological discoveries in northern Greece ... With Philip dead, an assembly proclaimed Alexander the new Macedonian king.

Around this time he also married, though, as with so much about male-dominated ancient Greece, we don't even ... they organised a vote in the popular assembly that deprived the Areopagus, the ...

One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the Colossus of Rhodes, was a towering bronze statue of the Greek Sun god ...

Can the rise of a different kind of democracy help us to ease the collective feeling of Democratic Fatigue Syndrome?

The idea of free speech sparked into life 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece—in part because it served a politician's interests. The ability to speak freely was seen as essential for the new ...

The human brain is white and gray in color because it makes its very own cholesterol. Neurosteroids offer exciting novel ...