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 ...

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.

From the originary, Athenian meaning of democracy to the Civil War-torn Americans’ etiolated, watered-down version of indirect, representative parliamentary democracy was a very long stretch indeed.

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.

Before the "America in One Room" experiment in Philadelphia, 75% of participants said they were dissatisfied with American democracy. After the event, that number decreased to 54%.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Immediately after, Trump signed a proclamation making March 25, 2025, “Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.”. He referenced Greece’s 1821 ...

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

In an era when Bernstein sees democracy as threatened at home and abroad, he notes that one of the major lessons of Watergate was that the system worked because American institutions held firm ...

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 ...