Tag Archives: Athenian Democracy

Aeschylus Speaks To Me

Written By Walter Borden, M.D., Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Aeschylus speaks to me. Born in Eleusis, a village just north of Athens and the haunting grounds of the goddess Demeter, said to be the goddess of fertility and the harvest. To Aeschylus that was just a myth that masked her true identity—the goddess of grief.

Written on June 12, 2020 at 8:40 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Theater

Tags: Aeschylus, Aeschylus tragedy, Ancient greek tragedy, Athenian Democracy, Greek Tragedy, Oresteia, Persephone, Psychiatry, psychology, The Persians, Tragedy

Antigone: Democracy vs. Authoritarianism

Written by Alex Barrientos, Senior Editor, Classical Wisdom In Sophocles’ Antigone there are several different struggles taking place concerning different aspects of social, ethical, and political thought. The role of the citizen, the role of the leader, the right to rule, piety, disobedience, and other issues are discussed throughout the play. Indebted as we are

Written on June 5, 2020 at 8:39 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Ancient greek tragedy, Antigone, Athenian Democracy, authoritarianism, democracy, freedom, Greek Tragedy, liberty, Sophocles, tyranny

Democracy’s Fatal Flaw: Us

Written by William Giovinazzo, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom When I was a kid, I was taught by the good sisters of Saint Joseph that democracy is a wonderful thing, something ordained by God. In the United States in the early 1960s, it was seen as God’s gift to man, the bulwark against godless communism. Kennedy

Written on March 25, 2020 at 6:16 am, by Alex Barrientos

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Athenian Democracy, democracy, philosopher-king, Plato, Plato's republic, The Republic

Man: The Political Animal

Written by David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom The Tragic Road to Tyranny Imagine your leader is a brilliant and bold military genius who, through multiple conquests, has expanded the borders of your country by orders of magnitude. He does it because he and some of your leaders have ambitions of empire, need of new

Written on March 20, 2020 at 10:00 am, by David Hooker

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Categories: Politics

Tags: Aristotle, Athenian Democracy, democracy, freedom, game of thrones, greek democracy, Julius Caesar, monarchy, oligarchy, Plato, Politics, Polybius, populism, tyranny

Pericles’ Funeral Oration

It is the close of the first year of the Peloponnesian war. Athens, no stranger to war, finds itself mourning those who had fallen on the field of battle, the sons and fathers lost. As was customary in Athens the bodies of the deceased had been collected and displayed under a tent for three days.

Written on November 10, 2018 at 8:22 am, by plato

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Categories: History

Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Athenian Democracy, Athenian Empire, Athens, Pericles Funeral Oration

Athenian Democracy

By Ben Potter Athens, July 514 BC. Two of Athens’ most disgruntled sons, Harmodius and Aristogeiton become forever known as ‘The Tyrannicides’. With their swords plunged into the Tyrant Hipparchus, these two soon-to-be martyrs become the symbol of Athenian democracy. This is because these brave men’s actions paved the way for Athens to unfetter herself

Written on September 11, 2014 at 1:32 pm, by plato

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Categories: Places

Tags: Alcibiades, archai, Aristogeiton, Assembly, Athenian Democracy, Ben Potter, Boule, courts, demokratia, Demos, ekklesia, Harmodius, kratos, Peloponnesian war, pericles, strategoi, Tyrannicides