Was he truly dangerous, or a scapegoat for Athens' post-war collapse? Explore the charges and the city's turmoil.

When Pisistratus became tyrant of Athens in 547 BC it marked a change of direction for city-state and the surrounding land of Attica, which despite its large size and power was overshadowed by ...

The name of general Miltiades will forever remain in the minds of Greeks. He was the great victor of the crucial Battle of ...

James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his ...

When Pisistratus became tyrant of Athens in 547 BC it marked a change of direction for the city-state and the surrounding land of Attica, which despite its large size and power was overshadowed by ...

ATHENS — Since we began our little tour I ... Unlike Plato and Aristotle, Diogenes did not work for tyrants. Perhaps this is why tyrants loved him. Legend has it that Diogenes was the ...

He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his teacher, Socrates, discussing ethical truths with prominent citizens of Athens ... In "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's ...

For a time he was also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus ... It was under this political system that Athens successfully resisted the Persian onslaughts of 490 and 480/ ...

Now, archaeologists have stumbled upon mass graves near Athens containing the skeletal remains of 80 men who the researchers believe may have been followers of that wannabe tyrant, Cylon of Athens.

That fact has led some researchers to believe they may be followers of Cylon, a tyrant who tried to take over Athens in the 7th century B.C. According to Tia Ghose at LiveScience, the area of ...