Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

The famous conqueror’s burial location remains a mystery, but new research claims that material found in one of the iconic ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states ... a city could only hope to do so for a short time as a 'tyrant' rather than a king.

From narrowly avoiding being eaten by his father as a baby to seducing mortal women as a swan or a bull, there were some ...

The first ancient Greek colonies were established as early as the 8th century BC, while wide colonization continued through ...

A joint team of Greek and Austrian archaeologists unearthed a massive ruined temple on a hill near Samikon in 2021 and identified it as a long-lost sanctuary of Poseidon. After several years of work, ...

In the following interview, he also dispels some long-held notions about ancient Greece's most legendary ... Around 295 a tyrant of Athens named Lachares actually stripped the gold off the Athena ...

Greece's fractious main opposition party Syriza was hit by new defections Saturday during an emergency congress ahead of electing a new leader to replace Stefanos Kasselakis, who critics accuse of ...

Turkey’s foreign minister is in Athens for meetings with his Greek counterpart as part of efforts to ease tension between the ...

It is hard to imagine a better backdrop for teaching students about the American political process.Yet many civics and history teachers say they are keeping current events out of their classrooms this ...