The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

Ancient Greece is where the first form of direct democracy was developed. It was called demokratia, literally meaning "rule ...

The poet Byron, who died trying to fight in the Greek war of independence, movingly links this modern war with the ancient battle of Marathon, the earlier moment when Greece achieved freedom from ...

Take politics for example: apart from the word itself (from polis, meaning city-state or community) many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient ...

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

The priestess of the oracle at ancient Delphi, Greece. [Image: John Collier/Gift of the Rt. Honourable, the Earl of Kintore 1893/Wikimedia Commons] ...

The real ancient Olympic spirit: political, bawdy, and brutal We might find today’s Games too professional or too corporate. The ancient Greeks would have felt right at home.

During the end of Greece’s Bronze Age, between approximately 1700 and 1100 B.C., Mycenaean civilization flourished throughout the Peloponnesian Peninsula.