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 ...

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