The daily life in Ancient Greece revolved around work, family, education, and religion, shaping a civilization that still ...
The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...
Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth century BC, an Athenian fleet came to rest outside the tiny island of Melos ...
Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...
In 399 BCE, Athens put one of its greatest thinkers, Socrates, on trial. The charges? Corrupting the youth and disrespecting ...
As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving ...
A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.