The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

While no one place can be called the "mother" of democracies, Indian democracy is as ancient as Greek democracy, and both evolved independently.

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

Commentators in the government and media spoke ... one has to know the laws’ purpose (in Greek, their telos). That telos is broadly understood in ancient Greek texts to be the good of the ...

George Papandreou was also the room-mate at Amherst of Antonios Samaras – New Democracy prime minister from 2012-2015!. Having gotten to know Greece very well in the 1990’s I visited there ...

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.

Greek lawmakers have elected a former parliament speaker and leading advocate for the return of the disputed Parthenon ...

The Greek government’s nominee for the presidency ... a former parliamentary speaker nominated by the center-right New Democracy party, received 160 votes from lawmakers—40 short of the ...