A year after their defeat of Athens in ... of government, democracy quickly spread to a number of other leading city-states, despite the authoritarian grip of Sparta on the Greek world.

Isocrates the orator was the first to advocate for the unification of all Greek city-states under a single leadership.

As an ardent student of classical history and the ideals of democracy, I insisted that we include Greece as part of ...

It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves in ancient Greek city-states; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece in this period; ...

Classical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today ... It shows how democracy helped the Athenians to be better soldiers. For the first time ...