Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! American University History Professor Valerie French discusses the ancient Greek empire, its rise, and its impact on Western civilization. This ...

In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special report on ...

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 ...

Pope arrives in Greece for second leg of trip Address centres on threats to democracy Warns against authoritarianism, populism Pope quotes ancient Greek philosophers and writers ATHENS, Dec 4 (Reuters ...

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, ...

In the view of many, money corrupts democracy. In the view of Francis Albarède, however, it was money, in the form of coined silver, which created democracy in the first place. Dr Albarède is a ...

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