Paul Cartledge, in “Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece,” puts the city back on the cultural map, and makes a case for the Theban general Epaminondas as the Nelson of his day.

Ancient documents show that Argos once ruled over a small empire within Greece that has mostly been forgotten today.

A monument in Thermopylae to King Leonidas. Bridgeman Images Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was raised ...

SUBJECTS: Civics and Citizenship, English, Geography, History, YEARS: 5–6, 7–8, 9–10, 11–12 The history and character of ancient Greece were strongly influenced by its physical geography.

After the defeat of Persia, the city-states of Sparta and Athens started a long and exhausting war for dominance. As the silver mines became exhausted, Athens quickly lost its prominent role and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought to be more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Greek city. The coins—likely dated to the 5th century B.C.—were found ...

If there was any Greek state that could stand toe-to-toe with Sparta on the battlefield, it was Thebes, mythical home of Oedipus and bad-boy of Greece for taking the side of the Persians in 480.

State Sovereignty in Ancient Greece, and What Came of It. Share full article Nov. 12, 1864 The New York Times Archives ...