Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

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

What drove the Ancient Greeks to fight wars, thousands of years ago? The answer may surprise you, because what we consider “good” and selfless reasons to fight paradoxically led to more wars than the ...

Among all the city-states of Classical Greece, the most famous are certainly Athens and Sparta. Sometimes allies, often enemies, despite their shared language and culture, these two could not have ...

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was ...

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Comics legend Frank Miller made waves the other day when he unleashed this screed against Occupy Wall Street. Miller says, among other things, "This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And ...

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