Athens and Sparta were both powerful Greek city-states but their values, systems, and ambitions clashed violently. This video ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

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This is the third installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here and ...

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Slave women in Athens had more freedom to leave the house ... Women from the city state of Sparta had more freedoms than Athenian women. They married later, generally aged 18 to 20, could own land and ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Cinadon’s conspiracy and attempted coup reveal deep social tensions in ancient Sparta and a swift, disciplined response to ...

In one, Theseus, mythic founder of Athens, fought and defeated the Amazon Antiope. Heracles set out on his ninth labor with orders to obtain the war belt of the Amazon queen Hippolyte.

A large wildfire has broken out south of Athens, forcing evacuations and road closures near the ancient Temple of Poseidon.

Before World War II, the area near Groom Lake was used for silver and lead mining. Once the war began, the government needed a large swath of desolate land to develop and test nuclear weapons.