Instead, Edith Hamilton, just four days short of 90, walked up to a microphone and in a firm voice declared: “I am an Athenian citizen! I am an Athenian citizen! This is the proudest moment in ...

But 25 percent of Athenian citizens lost the right to vote.” I should probably say that since the museum began these mock trials, with Socrates in 2013, I’ve participated as a juror in several.

The Athenian popular leader transferred political power from the traditional tribal clans to the general Assembly of citizens. What followed, however, was a historic but insidious growth in power of ...

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Thus informed by the architect of the U.S. Constitution, I would, were it up to me, ...

The neo-Athenian revival behind this new New French Revolution—less colourful and dramatic yet perhaps just as far-reaching as the first—seems to fit the twenty-first century’s crowd-sourced ...