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

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

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

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

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Those who study Greek mythology may have noticed similarities between towns like Homer, Castor, Alexandria, Athens, Eros, Sparta, Urania, and Arcadia, Louisiana, and the ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...