Ancient Greek king, Polydorus of Sparta, built on Lycurgus’ reforms, shaping Spartan governance and balancing royal authority ...

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered the ruins of an ancient palace with important archaic inscriptions dating back to the Mycenaean Age, the culture ministry said Tuesday. The palace, likely ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states ...

At the beginning of his new book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, Paul Rahe quotes a passage from John Stuart Mill—an 1846 passage in which Mill writes that Ancient Greek history is ...

These timeless stories from ancient Greece or Greek mythology have been reinterpreted for modern audiences in engaging and ...

New historical research suggests that one of the most legendary cities in history did not start out as a conquering warrior state — poking a hole in its founding myth. The study, which centered around ...