In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober - a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy - argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that could be ...

A vase from ancient Greek civilization depicts Apollo consulting the oracle of Delphi. G. Dagli Orti/DeAgostini Collection via Getty Images Most of us take big and small risks in our lives every day.

A statue of the Greek writer Thucydides at the Austrian capital in Vienna. More than 2,000 years ago, he noted the friction that led to war between an established power, Sparta, and a rising power, ...

When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second-grade ...

To consider the dangers in America's future, let's go back more than 2,000 years to ancient Greece. Sparta was the established power, but Athens was rising fast. Sparta wanted to preserve its status, ...

THE Greek word for money, chrema, carries a significance its English translation cannot fully convey. “It means ‘to need’ and ‘to use’ together,” explains Nicholas Stampolidis, director of the Museum ...

President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart President Xi Jinping walk together at Mar-a-Lago in Florida on April 7. To consider the dangers in America's future, let's go back more than 2,000 ...