The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

In other words, Aeschylus records nothing less than the beginnings of democracy itself: what it does to military city-states and, importantly, to their literary output. That the immediate context of ...

Washington has not seen a full-scale military parade such as this in a generation. The last was 34 years ago. It was called the National Victory Celebration and timed to welcome returning veterans of ...