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 ...

For generations, Americans have surrounded themselves with the symbols of ancient Greece and Rome: marble columns, laurel ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Plato was born between 429 B.C. and 423 B.C. The Parthenon stood over the city, but Athens’s golden age was over. As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426.

Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy for flawed human beings, and warned against hubris, which was all great practice for democracy.

The moral principles and self-correcting mechanisms of US democracy are the beacon and timeless tools of struggle for ...

Letter: Athenian democracy was highly questionable. Published 4 December 2024. From Stuart Leslie, Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia . No one should base ideas of democratic reform on the belief ...

Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into a militaristic empire and how through a democratic process, Athens executed its most famous philosopher. Address ...

Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War, launched by Sparta and its allies in 431, would dominate the first two decades ...