Arthur Evans begins to dig in Crete
Richard Cavendish marks the start of a landmark archaeological project, on March 23rd 1900
Ancient Greece
Re-running Marathon
The Battle of Marathon has long been presented as the decisive moment at which Greeks led by the newly democratic Athenians gained the upper hand over the despotic Persians. Barry Baldwin reappraises the battle, and explains why it is still a byword for endurance.
The Kerameikos of Athens
Graham Shipley meets the dead in a Greek cemetery - an oasis of classicism in modern Athens.
Greece Goes West
A look at a new exhibition in Venice, which shows the flow of culture between East and West in early Greece.
'An Army of Lovers' - The Sacred Band of Thebes
Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.
Child's Play in Classical Athens
Lesley Beaumont looks at how children's games were not just seen as pastimes but as active stimuli to learning and good citizenship in the world of Plato and Aristotle.
Splitting Images: Communication in Classical Athens
E. Hall looks at the methods used in ancient Greece to court public opinion in the light of the modern media and messages of democratic politics today.
American Democracy Through Ancient Greek Eyes
Barry Strauss looks at the contrasts and similarities between the city-states and the 'land of the free'.
Women and Politics in Democratic Athens
Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena's sisters nevertheless made their mark.
The City and the Democratic Ideal
François Hartog on how urban living has coincided with the advocacy of popular rule from Plato through to Machiavelli, Rousseau and 20th-century sociologists.