Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

In America today, an impeached former leader, whose lies threaten the very structure of democracy, is maneuvering to return to power. This has happened before, with dire consequences. In ancient ...

Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have accounts of, how it was born, and how it evolved 2500 years ago in ancient Athens.

Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

Tufts Daily (TD): What was the inspiration for this exhibit? What did the curation process look like? Phoebe Segal (PS): We opened new galleries of Greek and Roman art at the end of 2021. And when we ...

The word ‘democracy’ originated from the ancient Greek word ‘demokratia’ around 507 BC, where ‘demos’ means people and ‘kratos’ means power/rule. So, democracy means ‘people ...

In his Bryn Mawr Classical Review of Jessica Paga’s book “The Construction of the Athenian Democracy,” Roy van Wijk, SNFS of Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, states, “A subtitle for Paga’s ...