Democracies are notoriously fragile. Athenians who lived some two generations after fending off Persian invaders in 480 BC would affirm as much. After a meteoric rise to superpower status in the fifth ...
Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...
Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.
Greece’s fiscal and economic crisis has sharpened debates among economists, political scientists, and policymakers about political institutions and economic growth. Do good institutions—democracy and ...
In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Lessons from Ancient Rome is a very relevant and timely lecture as the United States of America faces a decision point in 2020 about which direction to take the country. Reed ...