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

Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

Does it speak to you of today? The siege of Melos took place in 416BC during the Peloponnesian War between democratic Athens and Sparta. Melos was a small neutral Greek island. The chaos of war ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

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 ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

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

Stavridis noted that reading builds empathy, and empathy reduces conflict between ... the war was set when leading power Sparta began to decline and was threatened by ascending power Athens.

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