The English noun tyrant appears in Middle English use, via Old French, from the 1290s. The word derives from Latin tyrannus, meaning "illegitimate ruler", and this in turn from the Greek τ?ρανν ...
Academic definitions of populism have varied widely over the centuries, and the term has often been employed in loose and inconsistent ways to denote appeals to "the people", "demagogy" and "catch-all ...
The concept evolved in Ancient Greece, whereby a council of leading citizens was commonly empowered and contrasted with direct democracy, in which a council of male citizens was appointed as the "sena ...
The basic standards of the Ancient Greek monetary system were the Attic standard, based on the Athenian drachma of 4.3 grams of silver and the Corinthian standard based on the stater of 8.6 grams of s ...
Further information: Euboea (mythology)Like most of the Greek islands, Euboea was originally known under other names in Antiquity, such as Macris (Μ?κρι?) and Doliche (Δολ?χη) from its elo ...
Prehistory The first evidence for human activity in the area of Eretria are pottery shards and stone artifacts from the late Neolithic period (3500-3000 BC) found on the acropolis as well as in the pl ...
The earliest recorded mention of Chalcis is in the 'Iliad' (2.537), where it is mentioned in the same line as its rival Eretria. It is also documented that the ships set for the Trojan War gathered at ...
Plato analyzes the polis in The Republic, whose Greek title, Πολιτε?α (Politeia), itself derives from the word polis. The best form of government of the polis for Plato is the one that leads t ...
We have no direct information in ancient sources to date this war. Indirect evidence in Thucydides points towards a date ca 705 BC, that situates it halfway between history and legend. At the very sam ...
The Phoenician alphabet was first uncovered in the 17th century, but up to the 19th century its origin was unknown. Scholars at first believed that the script was a direct variation of Egyptian hierog ...
Linear B also uses a large number of ideograms. They express:The type of object concerned (e.g. a cow, wool, a spear)A unit of measure.They are typically at the end of a line before a number and appea ...
Linear B has roughly 200 signs, divided into syllabic signs with phonetic values and ideograms with semantic values. The representations and naming of these signs have been standardized by a series of ...
Demosthenes was probably born in 382 BC, during the last year of the 98th Olympiad or the first year of the 99th Olympiad. His father—also named Demosthenes—who belonged to the local tribe, Pandioni ...
It is quite clear that Socrates never would have said most of the things that Xenophon relates in his dialogues. Although Xenophon claims to have been present at the Symposium, this is impossible as h ...
