On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

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