The 'democratic' reforms of Cleisthenes were a highly complicated revision of tribal and religious associations that had endured for centuries. Above all else, they were an attempt to make the ...

When Cleisthenes returned from exile to Athens in the year 507 BC, he faced a situation for which there was no precedent in history. Having proposed reform before Isagoras usurped power ...

Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

As both Herodotus and Aristotle tell the tale, this was the basis for a popular revolution that was to be led by the great statesman, Cleisthenes, who was in a contest with the aristocrat Isagoras ...

According to Professor David Fleming, there is a need to help students work through differences in opinion, and use modes of ...

We had Halloween, turning the clocks back an hour, the release of a new Liam Neeson/Ron Perlman mob movie and a Week 10 slate that saw a gaggle of ranked teams pushed and/or upset by unranked teams, ...