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Democracy’s an idea that’s been kicking around for thousands of years, an attempt to bring a particular form of order to a ...

Plato’s account of his symposium is probably ... The word skolion means “sideways” in ancient Greek, a reference to how the guests took turns to sing, afterward passing a myrtle branch ...

In "Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the ... Professor of Classics at Bard College and editor of the Ancient Lives biography series from Yale University Press.