Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down. For ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably rewritten ...

In his Aug. 13 article "Summer Olympics -- Athens 2004: On the Games," Stefan Fatsis states that, at the time of the 1821 Greek revolution, modern Greek and ancient Greek "shared little beyond an ...