Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

Around 480BC Greece entered a golden age which lasted for 200 years. The people built fantastic temples, made scientific discoveries, wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy.

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 ...