A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...

The thirty tyrants of Athens were only in power for eight months but still managed to kill five percent of the city's population.

The world as we know it today has been shaped by battles that altered the course of history and defined global power dynamics ...

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

Mourners lined the streets outside Athens’ central cathedral for the state funeral for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, ...

The word democracy comes from Greek, demos (people) and kratos (power/rule) which means that power is in the hands of the people. By approximately the 5th century before Christ, the city of Athens ...

Around 25,000 people marched through Athens on Sunday in closely watched demonstrations to mark the 51st anniversary of the pro-democracy uprising that helped topple military rule in Greece ...

"The people wanted the choice of a Greece run by a majority government and by New Democracy without the help of others," he said in a victory speech. Hours earlier party supporters in Athens ...

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...