His vision transformed a ruin into a thriving cultural center. Introduction The agora of Athens developed from the 6th century BCE...
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Without imported food, Athens would have starved. The 630,000 acres of land in Attica, the region in...
The agora was a political and a commercial space in Athens and other ancient Greek city-states. Introduction...
Democracies and Republics, the best of all political structures, have a way of destroying themselves if not...
Thucydides indicates that this plague was extraordinary in that “a pestilence of such extent and mortality was...
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...
“Hellenistic” Athens may not shine as brightly as Classical Athens, but it has lived unfairly in the...
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....
Pausanius is best known for his ten-volume work, Description of Greece, detailing his travels through the country,...
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 career of Pericles and of the extension of Athenian democracy that took shape under his direction....
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...
Social movements often arise in times of sudden changes and social unrest, becoming a source of spiritual...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
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...