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

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese in Greece, Sparta was a warrior society where males aged seven ...

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

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Born in the 11th century BCE, Eurysthenes was the twin son of Aristodemus, himself a descendant of Heracles. He became the ...

A latest rumor is pointing to a new God of War game set in Ancient Egypt as Sony is casting actors for a new AAA game.

Originating mainly from conquered regions like Messenia, the Helots were essential to the Spartan economy, allowing the ...

While Odysseus and Achilles fought for the same cause, they embody two different approaches to ancient Greek heroism.

They will serve with Task Force Spartan, supporting U.S. Central Command’s mission to increase regional security and stability. Guard leaders praised the Soldiers and their families during the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

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 ...

That resonance may account for the flurry of Ancient Greek tragedies ... War between democratic Athens and Sparta. Melos was a small neutral Greek island. The chaos of war had been an acid-bath ...