The lasttyrannos, or tyrant, to rule Athens was Hippias, who fled the city whenSpartainvaded in 510 B.C. Two or three years later, an Athenian aristocrat named Cleisthenes helped introduce democratic reforms. Over the next several decades, subsequent reforms expanded this political system while...
which evolved between the 20th and 21st centuries, and the debate about how to intervene on population trends, which also changed during this period. Finally, the article will chart the way forward and outline the key points of a new policy agenda. (Many elements of this article are taken ...
The stunning city of Petra in Jordan was built by the Nabataeans with staggering sums from the luxury trade. Now the discovery of a faraway submerged altar temple shows the extent of its reach.
For example, German society was devastated twice in the 20th Century, while Japan’s spectacular stock market recovery was famously derailed by a contemporarybursting asset bubbleand three decades of secular stagnation. Correlation is not destination Some would argue that world stock markets are now t...
And in the last few decades, he said, many audiences at opera performances have abandoned pretenses, yelling “Bravo” when they feel like it. F)“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with an audience showing their enthusiasm for a proper moment by applauding, showing their joy,” ...
Some of the best things to do in Portugal include visiting its beautiful beaches, hiking in its national parks, exploring its charming villages, and of course sampling its delicious food and wine. There are many reasons to visit Portugal, from its great weather and rich history to friendly peo...
This is the way to think about writing decades using numbers: they are both abbreviations and plurals. A shorter way of saying “My mother was born in the 1940s” is “My mother was born in the ’40s.” The apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark) indicates where the two cent...
Ireland is one of the most globalized economies on the planet, due to decades of state protectionism and successive economic failures. At first, Irish people left the country to go work in other countries for foreign firms. Now, many foreign firms are located in Ireland. In this way, Ireland...
Where science was once equated with “Taoists” in Chinese history (Sivin 1978), the last two decades have seen a shift towards thinking in terms of polymaths. Among the many recent studies on the topic,1 two stand out for how they apply this, using the polymathy of their subjects to ...
I cannot emphasize how often I have taken refuge and comfort in such extended family, which I have been able to build over decades of my life, picking and choosing from two and a half millennia of great minds produced by humanity. Near the end of his curriculum for Lucilius (and for ...