What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes has been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy – for which ...

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 ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece. Image caption, The Parthenon temple was built ...

it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles ...

With roots in the Indus Valley Civilization, India boasts one of the world's oldest cultures. Vietnam. Vietnam's history ...

Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a system that allowed certain dangerous individuals to be expelled from the ...

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece. London ... and William Kelly Simpson. 1998. The Ancient Near East: A History, 2nd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Hansen, Mogens Herman. 1991. The ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...