As the dust settles from strikes on Iran, Thucydides’ warning feels newly relevant: the strong do what they can, the weak ...

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

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

Can there be just cause for purely preventive military action — action that aims to impede or destroy an adversary's capacity ...

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

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 ...

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