The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

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.

‘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 ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece.

George Papandreou was also the room-mate at Amherst of Antonios Samaras – New Democracy prime minister from 2012-2015!. Having gotten to know Greece very well in the 1990’s I visited there ...

Or that ancient Greek “democracy” didn’t extend to women and slaves, two-thirds of the population. Besides, lots of other ancient civilisations independently “invented” philosophy ...

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 ...