Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

Humans have had almost ceaseless difficulties in working and living together. Superstition, religious ideas, race, geography, ownership of land, and language engulf them so much, they often fail to ...

The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states. Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of-power ...

Thucydides says that fear sparked the Peloponnesian War. Fear was behind Sparta’s attack on Athens. In the 50 years or so after the Persian wars, 479-431 BCE, Sparta watched the rise of Athenian power ...