Joel Christensen is Professor and Chair in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. This article originally appeared in The Conversation. As a father of three and the husband of an ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic Games in ...

In her corrective “The Missing Thread,” the classical historian Daisy Dunn paints a fuller picture of the ancient world. By Lyta Gold Lyta Gold is an essayist and fiction writer, and the author of the ...