In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots. By David Belcher This article is from a special ...

The ancient Greeks practised direct democracy. It literally was “ people power ”. They took measures specifically to ensure that ruthless, narcissistic people were unable to dominate politics .

We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary.All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts.

The ancient Greeks practised direct democracy. It literally was “ people power ”. And they took measures specifically to ensure that ruthless, narcissistic people were unable to dominate ...

There were many political entities in ancient Greece and several different forms of democracy. The ancient Athenians alone had – over a period of almost 200 years – at least three ...

The style of democracy employed by the Ancient Greeks is vastly different to the one we enjoy today. The Conversation's Paul Cartledge examines the differences between both. A Greek flag waves as ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the "cradle of democracy".

Description. This lesson was designed to be used as an enrichment activity for students that have mastered the basic historical information about the democracy that developed in ancient Greece.

What the ancient Greeks understood about democracy that Trump does not (Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; Photos via Getty Images, Timothy A. Clary / Pool/Getty Images) By Jane Manners and Melissa Lane ...

Ancient Greece was in many ways a brutal society. It was almost perpetually at war, slavery was routine and women could only expect a low status in society. However, there is one important sense in ...