Members of Spanish and Danish royal families have gathered in Athens for the wedding of Nikolaos, son of Greece’s late former ...

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Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy -- and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and ...

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. View on euronews ...

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

The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.

Democracies are vulnerable political systems. Democratic governments have frequently given way to authoritarian regimes, and ...

The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and ...

Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ancient city. You will most likely spend the majority of your stay within central Athens near all of the city's well-known attractions.