Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

The map below shows the location of Sparta and Athens. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

Nike was the Greek goddess of victory and an attendant of Zeus. While not among the 12 Olympian gods, she is described as a ...

The grand strategies of Sun Tzu and Thucydides converge on a central idea: true victory lies in avoiding direct confrontation ...

Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

The course covers the emergence of the polis in the Dark Age, colonization and tyranny, the birth of democracy, the Persian Wars, the interdependence of democracy and Athenian imperialism, the ...

On January 28 and 29, 2025, russian Sparta Il and Sparta merchant vessels reportedly departed ... the UK Defense Intelligence reports. Negotiations between russian Government representatives and Syria ...

The duo’s new album explores their relationship as a married couple and the harmonies that can unite even seemingly disparate ...

Israel’s defense minister threatened to open “the gates of hell” in Gaza if Hamas does not release Israeli hostages as ...

On Feb. 10, 1763, the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War between Britain and Spain and also the French and Indian War ...