The role of good Greek tyrants and aesimnetai in ancient Greece, highlighting leaders like Peisistratus, Polycrates, and Solon.

Antisthenes, Cynic philosopher and tutor of Diogenes, championed simplicity, virtue, and freedom, influencing Stoic thought.

The artifact emerged from the ruins of an ancient Roman building-turned-workshop in Sicily from the second or first century ...

Supported by a faction of Athen's most conservative aristocrats, his new regime appeared to be a return to tyranny ... and his allies was based on an ancient misdeed the clan had been responsible ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states ... a city could only hope to do so for a short time as a 'tyrant' rather than a king.

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...

Marcaline J. Boyd's main teaching and research interests are the social and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome. Dr. Boyd is currently working on a book on tyranny that examines the ...