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

Beginning in the 14th century, when Greece was wracked by political and social struggles, monks began building a series of ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) is an immortal episode in Western history. Traveler, go tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their sacred laws. This epitaph, cited by the historian ...

300 is still considered by many to be Zack Snyder's greatest movie (in close contention with Watchmen). The bloody historical action film depicts the battle between 300 Spartan soldiers and the ...