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

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

At the entrance to the Peloponnese, the city of Argos in Greece stands as a living witness to the ancient world. Four ...

The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are also believed to have been built during ...

The Trojan War supposedly involved cities from all over Greece. Which cities in particular are mentioned by Homer's Iliad?

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 ...

Cartledge, professor of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, has created an intriguing overview of Greek history by providing synopses of 11 key city-states, each representing a different ...

Neolithic towns and villages in the Near East -- Early Sumerian cities -- Mesopotamian cities in the late third and second millennia BC -- Cities of the Indus Valley civilization -- Egypt of the ...