What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

As Athens and cities across Greece burn, an erratic police force reflects the state of a government in meltdown. The centre-right government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis on Monday (8 December) ...

In his Bryn Mawr Classical Review of Jessica Paga’s book “The Construction of the Athenian Democracy,” Roy van Wijk, SNFS of Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, states, “A subtitle for Paga’s ...

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 ...

In December the Supreme Court in the American state of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...

Democracies have to adjust to a changed world, but the challenge before them is to do so without losing their essential values. By Roger Cohen Reporting from Athens This article is from a special ...