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The term democracy appeared in the 5th century BC in Greek city-states, notably, Classical Athens, to mean "rule of the people", in contrast to aristocracy. It is derived from the Greek word...

An ancient rock known as the "ostracon", housed in the British Museum, contains the reasons ancient Egyptians skipped work.

£5m investment has created 150 jobs

Was the US Consitution a masterpiece? The common answer has frequently been an unabashed “yes,” but many critics now complain that the Constitution was fatally flawed from the beginning.

Joshua T. Katz on “men” & “women” in Plato.

Monmouth College has received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help U.S. teachers instruct their students about everyday life in ancient Greece. The grant was the brainchild of Monmouth classics professor Bob Simmons and Louisiana high school classics teacher Nathalie Roy. The NEH grant will fund Simmons’ and Roy’s application […]

Matthew Quest, writing for Insurgent Notes, details CLR James' treatment of Lenin across decades of James' work. While CLR James broke with with Trotskyism and Trotsky as well as the Leninist party form, he never properly broke with Lenin or his works.

This is the second post of our three-part series (I) looking at the structure of the ancient Greek polis. Last week we looked at how the Greeks understood the component parts of a polis, so this week we're going to look at how those parts were governed. The Greek term for the structure of a…

Dean Kalimniou explores ancient Greek literature pairing the pleasure of food with sex

Dean Kalimniou explores ancient Greek literature pairing the pleasure of food with sex