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

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 ...

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 ...

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 chaos of war ...

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

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

Thucydides believed the path to the war was set when leading power Sparta began to decline and was threatened by ascending power Athens. The rise of the No. 2 is what Allison was referring to when ...

The grand strategies of Sun Tzu and Thucydides converge on a central idea: true victory lies in avoiding direct confrontation ...

It’s a phenomenon that defined the Civil War — and continues to define ... The classic example of schismogenesis is Athens and Sparta. Athenians developed democracy and imperial power because ...

“One view is that war is something very deep in human nature ... The term was coined in reference to the rise of Athens and the fear it caused in Sparta but has more recently been used to describe the ...