The Mediterranean became de iure a Greek and, still more, Athenian sea. By Dr. V.L. KonstantinopoulosAncient Historian...
Athens
The rhetoric of the Persian Wars was central to Alexander’s goal of forging panhellenic unity. Introduction In...
The classical-era Acropolis was a place of bright and variegated colours. Introduction How did the people of...
The earliest forms of democratic governments began to form in Greek city-states in the sixth century BCE....
Sparta was a society with too many institutional checks and balances, and Athens was a society with...
She won a contest with Poseidon over who would preside over the city cherished by all the...
Athenian calendars used lunar cycles and/or solar events to affix dates. Introduction The term “Athenian Calendar” (also...
He could not keep his word as he kept changing sides and lived in exile. Alcibiades, the...
Apart from some futile attempts to recapture their freedom, for well over a century the Greeks remained...
The Agora was the central gathering place for all of Athens, where social and commercial dealings took...
Athens had the largest and wealthiest city-state, but they also had a larger class of people excluded...
The famous Greek playwrights, historians, and physicians familiar to us today lived in the fifth century. Introduction...
Athens was chosen as the Greek capital for historical and sentimental reasons. Ottoman Athens The first Ottoman...
Athens has been inhabited from Neolithic times, possibly from the end of the fourth millennium BCE, or...
Exploring the establishment of the Duchy following the Fourth Crusade. Introduction The Duchy of Athens was a...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
The people of Athens commissioned Draco to devise a written law code and constitution, giving him the...
Economic crisis, impoverishment, and elite conflict led Athens to be managed by individual rulers, the last tyrants...
Looking past a plague at how a massive government spending plan went badly awry 2,500 years ago....
Many Ancient Greek fortifications connected a city to another site – a citadel or a port. The...
The Athenian treasury was the first Panhellenic sanctuary that was dedicated by Athenians. Introduction The Athenian Treasury...
Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states. Introduction The Constitution of the...
The most famous series of wars in ancient Greek history broke out with a revolt against Persian...
There is no systematic collection of Greek laws, thus the knowledge the earliest notions of the subject...
The movement toward oligarchy was led by a number of prominent and wealthy Athenians. Introduction The Athenian...
Power belonged to anyone who could harness the collective will of the citizens directly by appealing to...
Even if a treaty by this name was never drawn up, it is true that there was...
Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Athenians preferred to memorialize punishments for eternity. By Dr. Danielle S. AllenJames Conant Bryan University Professor of...
Constructing a “national” identity of the Athenian inhabitants during the tyrannical governance of Peisistratos and his sons....