War was a prominent event in ancient Greece, whether between city states or against foreign powers. However, laws controlled the violence.
As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...
Themistocles will always be lauded as the great general who pushed the Persians out of Greece with his strategy in the Battle ...
How do you create a golden age? In my book Peak Human, I tried to answer that question by examining seven exceptionally creative and innovative civilizations—ancient Athens, Rome, the Abbasid ...
Recently, in the article we devoted to the Spartan king Agesilaus II, we explained the context in which he had to ascend the ...