While no one place can be called the "mother" of democracies, Indian democracy is as ancient as Greek democracy, and both evolved independently.

As a system of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world. However, Sparta's dominance was not to last.

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

‘Galaxy’, ‘Europe’, ‘Democracy’, even ‘Acrobat’ - they’re all based on Ancient Greek words. There are thousands of others! It’s worth looking up a few more, if only to ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium. In 800BC ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece. Image caption, The Parthenon temple was built ...

Democracy means a system in which all citizens ... The first “democracies” in the Ancient Greek city states did not resemble what we would mean by that term today, not least because only ...

The Greeks called this an ethos. I am a specialist in Greek philosophy and the way in which it has influenced the development of contemporary western democracy and culture. Over the last three ...

The Parthenon stands as an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and its democratic ideals. Perched majestically on the Acropolis ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

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