One of the weak points of the movement is the fact that the moments of resurgence have never obtained any concrete results. The general assembly of the neighborhood assemblies was one of those moments ...

This is the third of a four-part review of Tom Holland's Persian Fire and Rubicon. Read part one here and part two here. The efflorescence of creativity we call classical Greece originated - not ...

In 407 BC, the most incredible “leveling” took place. The Athenian Assembly voted to grant freedom and citizenship to slaves who enlisted in the navy. There, perhaps, ...

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Thus informed by the architect of the U.S. Constitution, I would, ...

In 415 BC, the Athenian assembly led by Alcibiades, voted to invade Sicily. The city-state of Segesta had promised huge financial aid in return for assistance against its enemy Selinus.

The Athenian populist Ephialtes soon pushed through more radical reforms in 462/1 B.C. that led to an even greater expansion of the power of the Athenian popular Assembly. His radicalization of the ...

The rise of Athens: An image showing the Acropolis of Athens, symbolizing its cultural and military power, with a shadow of Sparta looming in the background, representing the fear it instilled.