From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

LANGFITT: Callahan says when the tradition began, people compared the Annapolis Cup to a contest between ancient Athens and Sparta ... and bow ties dance with women in sundresses to a jazz ...

LANGFITT: Callahan says when the tradition began, people compared the Annapolis Cup to a contest between ancient Athens and Sparta. CALLAHAN ... men in boaters and bow ties dance with women in ...

Other city-states (including Athens and Sparta) also shared the same general ... And Zeus himself became enamored of married women—like Amphitryon’s wife Alcmene—and impregnated them.

They warn the Athenians that such belligerence could drive other small states into the arms of Sparta. Athens lays siege to Melos, and after months of fighting sacks it, putting the men to death and ...

Thucydides’ fifth century B.C. history of the war between Athens and Sparta includes a famous debate ... putting the men to death and sending the women and children into slavery.

Women have taken to the streets of cities across Brussels, Athens, Belgrade and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence.

According to notospress, the young women suddenly ... a student in Athens who also worked as a waiter alongside his two friends. He had traveled to Sparta to reunite with them for a trip, unaware ...

Sparta was a small Greek state in 500BCE ... while at the same time allowing a remarkable amount of freedom to its Spartan women. Unlike their rivals in Athens and other Greek states they despised ...