The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Frank Miller has retained a modicum of control over how his graphic novels (don’t call them “comic books”) are brought to the screen, whether by holding out for the best offer and participating in the ...

The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...

In this masterly account of some of the most formative events of the ancient world, Rahe describes how the Greeks resisted the military might wielded by the Persian emperors Darius and Xerxes during ...

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In his newest study, historian ...

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 ...

The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica, and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...

Total War: Rome 2 fans have a chance to tackle the challenges of the Peloponnesian Wars in the latest campaign DLC. Total War: Rome 2 Wrath of Sparta is a new campaign set in the Hellenic world ...

The only way to grasp intra-elite strife at Sparta is to focus on the two royal families of the Agiads and Eurypontids. The continuing rivalry that marked their relationship was inevitably reflected ...

Ah, Gameloft. There are certain constants in the world—fish always swim in the sea, birds always fly in the sky, and Gameloft always finds new ways to pack in-app purchases into games. The latest ...