Ancient Greece

Graham Shipley meets the dead in a Greek cemetery - an oasis of classicism in modern Athens.

A look at a new exhibition in Venice, which shows the flow of culture between East and West in early Greece.

Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.

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.

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.

Barry Strauss looks at the contrasts and similarities between the city-states and the 'land of the free'.

Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena's sisters nevertheless made their mark.

François Hartog on how urban living has coincided with the advocacy of popular rule from Plato through to Machiavelli, Rousseau and 20th-century sociologists.

Mary Beard looks at the new ways of thinking about what life was like for women in Greece and Rome.

Charlemagne may have been the first Holy Roman Emperor but what did he do to dispel the 'Dark Ages'? Mary Alberi looks at the work of his leading court intellectual, Alcuin, and how his hopes for a 'New Athens' in the Aachen palace school promoted the Carolingian Renaissance.

Rebel without a cause? Paul Cartledge probes whether the chequered career of one of fifth-century Athens' most famous sons reveals more about conflicting codes of loyalty than just the machinations of a turncoat.

The symbols, slogans, ideas and architecture of the Founding Fathers were saturated in the world of Ancient Greece and Rome.

'You are what you eat' was as relevant an observation for the ancients as for more modern thinkers, argues Helen King