Sulla's ruthless campaigns in Greece, including the devastating siege of Athens, marked a turning point in Roman history.

though with its emphasis on foreign conquest it did share some similarities with Sparta. Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in northern Africa, which controlled most of the trade ...

Head further back in time and fight in the Greek war between Athens and Sparta in Total War: Rome II's latest expansion.

From Rome to Athens, these devastating outbreaks rewrote ... Athena couldn't save them from this plague. In 430 BCE, as Sparta laid siege to Athens, a mysterious and brutal disease erupted within ...

The map below shows the location of Rome and Sparta. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

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 ...

“We looked to Greece and Rome for political inspiration ... Today, almost nothing of old Sparta remains. Ironically, Homer ...

The first city of a million was built two thousand years ago. But how did they make Ancient Athens and Rome work without petrol, gas or electricity? Professor Wallace-Hadrill finds out.