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

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

When Pisistratus became tyrant of Athens in 547 BC it marked a ... power was overshadowed by many of the other city-states of Greece. During the long period of his rule, Pisistratus sought to ...

And just like Pisistratus, the tyrant who established the 'City Dionysia ... but theatres proved to be so popular they soon spread all over Greece. Drama was classified according to three ...