Ostracism is an ancient democratic tradition practiced in Athens that offers an alternative approach of imprisoning political ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

The ancient Greeks ... the adult males of Athenian birth and full status. Of those 30,000 perhaps 5,000 might regularly attend one or more meetings of the popular Assembly, of which there were ...

At Prawfsblawg, legal scholar Paul Gowder has an insightful post on some of the reasons why the study of ancient Athenian democracy is relevant to modern debates about law and politics.

We may not be as fit as the people of ancient Athens ... Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in the eastern Aegean. The Athenian assembly ordered all Mytiline’s men to death, and despatched ...

There are some interesting parallels to all of this in the political landscape of ancient Athens. It was here that ... Each year the assembly of citizens (“ekklesia”) decided whether to ...