"Greek democracy was not, in fact, Greek democracy; it was Athenian, or Corinthian. Although the city-state mentality …"

"Despite the extraordinary influence of classical Greece on the development of democracy, modern democratic ideas and …"

"There is such a thing as fighting the battle of democracy in the front rank too long. It is ever the Aristides experi…"

"The Athenian practice had been, even before Plato’s birth, precisely the opposite: the people, the demos, should rule…"

"The contrast between the Persian state—and by the same token the late Imperial Roman, Bismarckian, or modern European…"

"Although the Romans disavowed Athenian democracy, there are many “Roman” arguments for involving the citizenry in pol…"

"The key to Athenian democracy was the Assembly, or ecclesia. It was in modern terms legislature, judiciary, and execu…"

"To the extent that they drew on classical governments for inspiration or illustration, the Founders much preferred re…"

"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his con…"

"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"