Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at ...

I Study Ancient Sparta. There’s One Major Thing Its Contemporary Fans Are Missing. Matthew A. Sears. ... mythical home of Oedipus and bad-boy of Greece for taking the side of the Persians in 480.

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Sparta—once a dominant military power in ancient Greece,collapsed not from conquest, but from deep internal weaknesses. In this video, we explore why one of history’s most feared warrior ...

Explore how geography, in particular the sea, shaped ancient Greece's agricultural practices, approach to trade and warfare, and colonial expansion.

In “The Muse of History” the author focuses on a particular obsession of Western historians over the past three centuries: the ancient Greeks, and to a lesser extent, the Romans, and how both ...

The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United States and China ...

The rivalry between ancient Athens and Sparta is infamous—but they may have been more 'frenemies' Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the ...