The thirty tyrants of ancient Athens were only in power for eight months but still managed to kill five percent of the city’s population after...
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The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped Western political thought. By Matthew Duncombe Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the first democracy in the world in Athens, but the word itself comes from the Greek demos (people) and […]
The thirty tyrants of ancient Athens were only in power for eight months but still managed to kill five percent of the city’s population after...
In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.
This is thought to be one of the earliest known photographs capturing a group of tourists on Athens’s Acropolis, taken around the 1860s when the...
In Ancient Greece, Noumenia, the day of the new moon, was the first day of the month and was considered to be “the holiest of days,”...
Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different periods of ancient...
The world’s first robot operated in Anciient Greece. The Automate Therapaenis (automatic maid) was the name of a technological miracle during the...
A reconstruction of the face of Avgi, a teenager who lived in Mesolithic Greece, around 7,000 BC, stuns viewers.
Middle Greek, also known as Medieval Greek, is the phase of the Greek language that bridges the Classical with the Modern Greek variety spoken today....
A recurring conspiracy theory which has gone viral claims that an ancient Greek statue supposedly depicting a woman “using a laptop” is...
The fascinating discovery of a treasure trove of a total of 51 Macedonian gold staters (coins) in ancient Corinth is one of Greek archaeology’s...