Listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech last weekend, one word kept running through my head: Plataea. If you’re ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Biden criticizes the ICC’s move as “outrageous,” saying “there is no equivalence” between Israel and Hamas. Netanyahu, America & the Road to War in Gaza The International Court of ...

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.