In the shadow of Sarajevo, the wealthy allegedly paid to hunt innocent people and the sickening trend could be more ...

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

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

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

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

A lone skull discovered near the walls of an ancient fort highlights the Romans' brutal treatment of their conquered foes.

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us ...

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

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

The NAU Theater Department’s rendition of “Lysistrata” was a hilarious romp through sex-deprived Athens, delivering laughs ...

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 ...

A couple of years ago, I read “Destined for War,” which explored whether conflict between China and America is indeed ...