The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political ...

They formed a popular assembly of their own and planned to sail from their base off the coast of Turkey at Samos to re-establish democracy at Athens. However, Alcibiades, an unlikely champion ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world ... wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy. Historians call this Classical Greece.

Only those skilled at the trade ought to rule. But in a democracy, the majority rule, therefore we shouldn’t have a democracy. This version of the argument seems to work against democracies ...