Athens’ victory at Marathon sparked fear that drove expansion and the fragile evolution of Athenian democracy.

A 6th c. BC ancient Greek marriage contest, ruined by Hippocleides’ infamous drunken dance, led to the establishment of ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

IT IS ONE of the most lurid descriptions in literature of a society collapsing under the shock of a virulent disease. In 430BC, the second year of its war with Sparta, the vibrant city of Athens was ...

Athens, the vibrant capital of Greece, has a mix of history and culture. Home to famous ancient landmarks like the Parthenon, it's the cradle of Western civilization and democracy. The city balances a ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann The ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Instability driven by climate change could threaten democracies in the future, even though representative governments are best equipped to provide solutions, experts gathered at ...

Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...

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 ...

Six months of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more than 115,000 deaths, staggering unemployment, closed schools, overrun food banks and renewed attention to the “pandemic within a ...