Ancient Greek lawmaker Solon of Athens is the statesman who laid the foundations for today's democracy in the sixth century ...

In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober - a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy - argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that could be ...

Humanities West teams up with Stanford Humanities Center to present a unique lecture-performance event Democracy Then & Now: From Ancient Greece to This Week. Noted Stanford Classics professors Josiah ...

President Trump recently scored a victory with the Supreme Court: The justices agreed to hear his case that his former role as president grants him immunity in the face of federal charges. Among the ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

Democracy is in trouble here and abroad. According to the highly regarded World Values Survey data, most Americans under 60 do not consider it “absolutely essential” to live in a democracy. In fact, ...

Philopoemen was the most skilled general of the Achaean League. He defeated Sparta and propelled the league to prominence in ...

Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of ...

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering pyramids of Egypt? These eight carefully selected books offer something ...