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Hecate: Mistress of Magic

Hecate started as the ruling goddess of the Asian region...

Triple-bodied statue of Hecate holding torches

From Tyranny to Athenian Democracy

When – and how – did Athenian democracy begin? There...

A silhouette of an athlete holding a flaming torch against a sunset sky

The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild

Pan started as a shepherds’ god in a wild and...

Drawing of Pan against yellow background

Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek

The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...

Engraving of Moses holding the ten commandements before his brethren

Writing Laws: Hammurabi to Solon

When and why do written laws emerge in ancient societies...

Etching of Greek scribes

Ancient Greek Ideas of Justice

In the poetry of the Athenian lawgiver Solon, justice (dikē)...

Statue of Lady Justice holding scales and sword

Plato and the Idea of Political Office

Is politics merely a gaslighting of the oppressed, a cloak...

Statue of Plato

Cicero In and On Political Crises

An enthusiast of the Roman mixed constitution, Cicero was elected...

Statue of Cicero

Plato to Polybius on Constitutional Change

Plato in the fourth century BCE penned an indelible sequence...

Roman marble relief depicting figures in Classical antiquity

Dionysus: Lord of Misrule

The ancient Greeks themselves were never comfortable about their god...

Illustration of a reclining classical figure with draped cloth and a lyre