The Thirty Tyrants turned reform into repression, using law, citizenship, and civic order as masks for terror...
Athens
Athens became one of the ancient Mediterranean’s most influential cities through democratic experimentation and cultural achievement. Its history also exposes the exclusions and imperial ambitions that existed beside those celebrated traditions.
Athenian democracy celebrated collective war, yet imperial strategy often reflected elite ambition while poorer citizens and allied...
Athens began as a small community of the Mycenaean Civilization (c. 1700-1100 BCE) and grew into a...
Athens installed a variety of regulations on the Delian League and on individual members. Introduction The Delian...
Rejecting Athenian hegemony. Introduction Athenian control over Ionia crumbled close on the heels of the disaster in...
Thucydides used the landmark of Marathon to mark the beginning of the military and political rise of...
The Mediterranean became de iure a Greek and, still more, Athenian sea. By Dr. V.L. KonstantinopoulosAncient Historian...
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...
Examining government in the medieval Duchy of Athens reveals how Greek administrative traditions persisted and adapted under...
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...
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There is no systematic collection of Greek laws, thus the knowledge the earliest notions of the subject...