Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

The principles of the Athenian democracy, including citizen participation, equality and free speech, are still what we need ...

Ancient 'House of Phaedra' Uncovered in Italy With Stunning Art Preserved Inside The ancient city of Pompeii, Italy, had many ...

A slave would be present to wash their hands ... The word skolion means “sideways” in ancient Greek, a reference to how the guests took turns to sing, afterward passing a myrtle branch ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would ... of these people were not citizens at all but slaves, tied to the land of their masters.

In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed their daily lives using a simple show of hands by all. I say all… women, slaves and foreigners were banned from voting.

Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... in disputes with its rival Greek city-states, especially Athens and Thebes. Slave rebellions had to be nipped in the bud—the Helots, conquered ...

The United States’ current political climate has parallels to the last few centuries B.C. in ancient Rome, home of notable ...