The heroic last stand by 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae is the most famous incident from the Persians’ failed attempt to conquer Greece in 480 BC. The Persian king Xerxes had invaded ...

The carnage of the last, heroic moments of the Battle of Thermopylae is vividly re-created in this 20th-century battle scene by Stanley Meltzoff. In early June of 480 B.C., a mighty Persian army ...

Pieces of an ancient Greek text that lay undiscovered in an Austrian museum have revealed a previously unknown Roman battle against invading goths. The goths were advancing on the Roman Empire ...

The central theme of After Thermopylae is not the battle itself, though Cartledge gives it adequate attention, but rather the controversy surrounding “The Oath of Plataea” and whether it was allegedly ...

After reading the verse of Thomas Davis’ reference to the battle of Thermopylae, I became enthralled with its history: “When boyhood’s fire was in my blood, I read of ancient free men in ...