The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal opponent, Darius III of Persia. But in this retelling of history, as in most ...

When the Persian army landed at Marathon in 490 BC ... Megara, and Corinth. Greek couriers of his day are believed to have been able to cover over a hundred kilometres a day, but Phidippides ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian ... who came from an area around modern day Iran. The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks managed to ...

Hoplite infantrymen were the military ideal of ancient Greece and were recruited from ... A highly successful 'war machine', the phalanx was used primarily against other Greeks who obeyed the ...

Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian ... who came from an area around modern day Iran. The Persian kings tried to conquer Greece a few times but the Greeks managed to ...