He burst onto the scene in 425 B.C. during Sparta’s struggle against Athens in the Peloponnesian ... including the one that would cost him his life outside Amphipolis, where he successfully ...

We are transported back to the year 500 BCE to meet Aspasia of Miletus - one of the most important women in Athens - to find out about everyday life in Ancient Greece. Our civilisation is known ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war ... training system were considered true Spartan citizens. It was a hard life. A boy was only allowed one tunic and had to walk everywhere barefoot, even ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” ...

Athens' homegrown talent, its playwrights, used the new theatres to examine what it really meant to be human. Whereas the traditional center of intellectual life in Ancient Greece had been the ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

“Jumping in the fountain in the middle of the night.” “Walking in the Athens Pride Parade.” “My out of town friend ordering 6 Cubanos from Cali & Tito’s to take back home.” These are ...

They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury, in a city that contained neither walls, nor grand buildings. Famous quotes and anecdotes associated with the Spartans: Herodotus reports ...

“It makes it bigger than UGA, it makes it bigger than Greek life,” Page said. “It makes it like an Athens thing, which I think makes it more important.” Virginia Snider, development ...