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 ...

Archaeologists investigate the dramatic origins of democracy in ancient Greece 2,500 years ago. Follow archaeological investigations into the dramatic origins of democracy in Greece 2,500 years ago.

The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were two kinds of democracy: one good and one bad. According to Dio, one form of ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the ...