During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

European streets, buildings, and monuments preserve layered testimony to the continent’s earliest urban civilizations. Among ...

Our presidential election brings to mind classical Athens, 5th century B.C., when a never-before-anywhere political revolution and invention gave each citizen (about 40,000 adult males), the right to ...

New research is uncovering a richer, more complex picture of women's roles as wives, priestesses, and scholars in ancient Greece. A woman places her robe in a chest in a fifth century B.C. Greek ...

The main features of the robust democracy the Athenians achieved in the 5th century B.C., and how it was achieved are well known. But what is not well told is that domestic politics in Athens was ...