A tyrant was a sole ruler in a Greek city-state, usually a usurper, who held power in...
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In the latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, the authenticity...
The neat labels of Greek text that accompany and identify many of the characters on the vase...
A new paper makes the case that scholars have ignored the role of female ceramicists in Greece...
Exploring the establishment of the Duchy following the Fourth Crusade. Introduction The Duchy of Athens was a...
Odysseus’s natural leadership, smarts, and cool head are exceptional, and he is entertainingly deceptive and tricky. Introduction...
Ephialtes’ reforms are considered by Aristotle and modern scholars to mark the end of the Areopagite constitution....
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras correctly determined that the rocky moon reflects light from the sun, explaining lunar...
Plato’s Nomoi and the Book of Deuteronomy dealt intensively with the fissures between rich and poor within...
Elites feared falling into poverty and tried to keep the evil eye away with laughable figures. By...
Two alternative conceptions of government – a republic and an oligarchy. By Friedrich Schiller18th-Century Philosopher and Historian...
Hippocrates used the “four humours” theory to explain the origins of these infections but understood the environment’s...
Given his positive reference to Genesis, Longinus has been assumed to be either a Hellenized Jew or...
Gorgias was a native of Leontini, a Greek colony in Sicily, which is often called the home...
Museum and academic scholars are key players in the fight for contextualized and equitable perspectives of black...
He is known for his participation in the Olympic Games and his attempt to expand his kingdom...
Achilles was too proud and bad-tempered for his own good, and his reckless rage would cost both...
Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
Thrasybulus was helping his ally Periander, the tyrant of Corinth. By Sergey M. ZhestokanovProfessor of ArchaeologySt. Petersburg...
The classics contain many references to tyranny and its causes, effects, methods, practitioners, alternatives. Introduction In the...
In archaic and classical Greece thrones were reserved for the gods and by extension, their priests and...
Examining the Macedonian king in combat. In his account of the preparations for the battle at Granicus,...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Economic crisis, impoverishment, and elite conflict led Athens to be managed by individual rulers, the last tyrants...
Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
The Hellenistic world which had had no monarch for half a decade after Alexander suddenly had a...
Looking past a plague at how a massive government spending plan went badly awry 2,500 years ago....
The earliest written sources of Homer and Hesiod attest to the existence of trade (emporia) and merchants...
Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
When nobles and wealthy members of communities reigned supreme. Introduction Oligarchy is a form of government in...