Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...

The Parthenon The Parthenon stands as an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and its democratic ideals. Perched majestically on ...

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have accounts of, how it was born, and how it evolved 2500 years ago in ancient Athens. Address 1929 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Berkeley ...

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ordered a cabinet reshuffle Friday as his conservative ...

What linked this complex tribal reform to Athenian democracy was the Council of Five Hundred, or Boule. Each tribe selected 50 council members for the 500-member Boule, usually chosen by lot.

Opposition alleges efforts to protect politicians responsible for a deadly train accident that killed 57 people.

Democracy has been registering a global decline, with Greece falling five spots in the 2024 Democracy Index, ranking 25th ...

The campaign was a disaster. Plato means Athens, and Athens means democracy, but Plato was no democrat. The “manipulation of demotic pseudo-knowledge,” Ms. Atack writes, encouraged political ...

Greek opposition parties challenged the country’s center-right government on Wednesday with a censure motion in parliament ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ordered a cabinet reshuffle Friday as his conservative government works to address declining public approval over a deadly 2023 rail ...