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

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Quincy High School's drama program presents "The Women of Troy," the tragic retelling of the Trojan War as experience by ...

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

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STANDING next to a sniper on the frontline in Iraq, dark tourist Andrew Drury was offered the chance to take a shot himself.

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