The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled uneasily with the realities of power.

Throughout the rise of the polis, war scenes lauded the Greek culture and heightened a sense of nationalism and Greek pride. They appeared in many mediums, from the painted clay of pots to the huge ...

The emerging democracy of fifth century BC Athens increased the need for education to prepare people to participate in the affairs of the polis (Greek city state). Whilst previously a young man would ...

The other pieces of evidence are specific to classical Athens. According to one study cited by Ober, the richest 1 per cent of Athenians owned about 30 per cent of all private wealth, while the ...

Tragedy helped check the forces that were unleashed when Athens first became a democracy. It demonstrated anew the fragile balance between order and chaos that had emerged in the aftermath of the ...

They also frequently hark back to historical antecedents (as in the Habermasian invocation of the “public sphere” of eighteenth-century bourgeois society and the Arendtian valorization of the ...