In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

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The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War, launched by Sparta and its allies in 431, would dominate the first two decades ...

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 ...

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana. Previously Director of the international peace ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...