No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

It is no coincidence that the words city, citizen and civilisation are all cognates. It was only after the Neolithic Revolution, starting about 10,000 years ago, that humans developed agriculture and ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

The loss of Greek freedom Civil conflicts in mainland Greece, however, brought Rome and Christianity to Hellas. They wrecked Hellenic civilization and, in time, the image we have of ancient Greeks ...

Some of the similarities between ancient Rome at its height and the ... system of government was originally set up out of hatred of monarchy, and later became ruled by emperors.

exploring significant events from as far back as the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, and right up to the dawn of the First World War. With 14 games in the mainline series and counting ...

The plight of the Greeks captured the imagination of Western Europe, where the legacy of ancient Greece—its ... the treaty recognized Greece as an independent state, though under initial constraints ...

Others have posited that the nine stripes stand for the nine muses, from the country’s ancient history ... During periods when the monarchy reigned in Greece, symbols of royal power were added to the ...

Situated atop the Quirinal Hill is the Palazzo del Quirinale, now the official residence of the President and previously home to the Italian monarchy and a Papal ... searching for the classical art of ...