“Nothing surprising in that,” a philosophical Greek explained. “It’s been going on since Pericles and will go on for some time to come.” Contact us at letters@time.com ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

Recorded, and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides, it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens ... new ideal of the Greek world. Pericles' view was ...

The relationship scandalized polite society, especially because they remained unmarried and Pericles treated her as an equal, an almost unthinkable action for most Greek men. But though Pericles ...

In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

GREECE TRAVEL GUIDE: POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATIONS FROM ATHENS TO THE ISLANDS In the mid-fifth century BCE, Pericles called upon ... still affords views of ancient sculptures, particularly on ...