To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An ...

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece. London: Routledge Dossin ... and William Kelly Simpson. 1998. The Ancient Near East: A History, 2nd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Hansen, Mogens Herman ...

With roots in the Indus Valley Civilization, India boasts one of the world's oldest cultures. Vietnam. Vietnam's history ...

Mr. Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into the eurozone and laid the groundwork for the ...

Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a system that allowed certain dangerous individuals to be expelled from the ...

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

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 ...