On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment. America may be still a constitutional republic in name, but recently it has operated more as an unchecked Athenian-style democracy. Americans may ...

Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, refined through centuries of revolution and philosophical debate, and now ...

The city that thoroughly institutionalized the principle of 'not letting one person hold power'This is where the main content ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Professor Melissa Lane talked about her book, The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter, in which she looks at ...

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. According to Dio, one form of ...