Despite opposition, the Municipality of Trifylia, southern Greece, uprooted a historic tree, tied to the Greece's War of ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

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Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

Remember that line. Does it speak to you of today? The siege of Melos took place in 416BC during the Peloponnesian War between democratic Athens and Sparta. Melos was a small neutral Greek island.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

There’s nothing a dragon loves more than tacos, which is why the dragons throw taco parties every year. As a reader, it’s ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled uneasily with the realities of power.

Allison but refers to a comment made more than 2,400 years ago by Greek historian and military commander Thucydides in the History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides believed the path to the war ...

even though Corinth and Athens were enemies during the Peloponnesian War between 431 and 404 B.C. Some later versions of Corinthian helmets had holes for the ears on each side, so that warriors ...

The idea originates from the Peloponnesian War more than 2,400 years ago, when Sparta concluded that war with Athens was inevitable because of the growth of Athenian power. Ma recently explored ...