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 ...

Zoe Konstantopoulou is the new rising star in Greek politics as she has managed within a month to sit safely in second place.

They all criticized Athenian democracy, and how it contributed to Athens losing that war. Born 20 years after the war, ...

Welcoming Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis before their meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

“The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law” is the ... over the history of the world – with the exception of direct Athenian democracy in ancient Greece. Lord Sumption points out ...

President Donald Trump celebrated Greek Independence Day at the White House on Monday with a proclamation declaring 204 years ...

Athens mayor Haris Doukas has joined many political figures in support of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu following his arrest, ...

Madison, credited with the phrase “tyranny of the majority”, went on to explain that the principal danger inherent in ...