In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

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 ...

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 ...

Show more Comedian and classicist Jon Harvey, explores modern British democracy through an ancient Athenian lens. If the one thing we can all agree on is that our state is in a state - could the ...

Rather, more direct political participation could ... A practice from ancient Athens Similar to ancient Athenian democracy, a "lottery democracy" uses random selection to determine who may ...

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 ...