A year after their defeat of Athens in ... of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world.

A year after their defeat of Athens in ... of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world.

This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480 – 323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when ...

This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480–323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic ...

At first glance, it looks like someone enjoyed taking the spaces out of a sentence; in reality, it's a single word by ...

The people built fantastic temples, made scientific discoveries, wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy ... out over the city of Athens. The final period of Greek history is known ...

According to Plato, Atlantis was a rich and advanced island nation that was located in the Atlantic Ocean nearly 12,000 years ...

On the long-ago bright September day when I landed for the first time in Greece aboard the S.S. Olympia, I took a taxi from Piraeus to Athens. Approaching the city from the southwest, as seaborne ...