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.

many of the other basic political terms in our everyday vocabulary are borrowed from the ancient Greeks: monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, oligarchy and - of course - democracy. Greece was a ...

They rest in an ancient cemetery where the National Library of Greece and the National Opera ... With some help from his tyrant father-in-law, he attracted a band of followers to take the Acropolis.

The Founding Fathers designed the constitution to prevent some Americans from exercising tyranny. Alert to the classical examples they knew, the decline of ancient Greece and Rome into oligarchy ...