In comparison, other important cities, like Corinth (with about 10,000 citizens), and Argos (with 15,000 citizens) were relatively small. Sparta had even fewer citizens, but was in many ways an ...

Greece is home to some of the world’s most extraordinary heritage sites. These range from ancient buildings — such as the extraordinary monasteries of Meteora, perched high on sandstone ...

There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...

Setting out from Athens, Phidippides made for Sparta journeying by way of Eleusis, Megara, and Corinth ... probably the greatest runner of ancient Greece, it was not Phidippides who ran what ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.