Listening to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech last weekend, one word kept running through my head: Plataea. If you’re ...

Was Cleopatra the cause of the conflict between these two consuls, both eager to become the masters of Rome? Historians are ...

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

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

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the ...

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 ...

Join me, Pantelis Kakaris from Geografikoi.gr, as I guide you through 10 must-have experiences to enjoy in Athens this February! No visit to Athens is complete without climbing up to the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The map below shows the location of Athens and Sparta. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Well, that's all from us after a bonkers night of Champions League football. If you missed the highlights programme, you can catch up on BBC iPlayer and watch all the best clips and highlights ...