A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...

The world's first democracy developed in Athens at the same time that Athens was growing increasingly imperial. The basic outlines of the development of democracy run from Solon to Cleisthenes to ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis voiced his views on cultural and political shifts, including the so-called “woke ...

What linked this complex tribal reform to Athenian democracy was the Council of Five Hundred, or Boule. Each tribe selected 50 council members for the 500-member Boule, usually chosen by lot.

When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history ...

Robin Reames’s “The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself” appears as the American republic ... verbiage had carried Athens to war and empire, turning it from a democracy into an oligarchic ...