Bright white buildings, sunlit hills, delicious cuisine, and ancient ruins scattered throughout the city—these are just some ...

Theater had become a way to unite the warring factions of ancient Greece — the very same divisions that would undo democracy in Athens after Sparta, with its Persian allies, conquered Athens in ...

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the ruling colonels withdrew the remaining tanks from the Parliament building in Athens. But most Greeks could see that democracy in Greece was more besieged than ever. Contact us at letters@time.com ...

The author is a professor of archaeology at the University of Toronto. Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Pork may be today's "other white meat," but when it comes to hog heaven, we can't hold a candle to the ancient Greeks ... important emblematic and ritual cultural uses." In Greece, ...