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Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

This week at The Tryon Theatre is “The Return,” a riveting adaptation of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, one of the most ...

Antalya, Fethiye and Bodrum are just a few of the towns and cities found on the sunny Turkish Riviera, sometimes referred to ...

Like many of the academic and scientific categories we still use today, oligarchy was originally defined by the Greek philosopher ... different governments of the ancient world and concluded ...

Ancient and modern empires – from Greece, Rome, Persia ... imperial militarism that prevented the birth of a constitutional monarchy anchored in an elected assembly in 1920.

oligarchy was originally defined by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In The Politics, he argued people are “political animals”, social by nature, and instinctively want to live in a community. He ...