Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Ionian Greek conscripts, drafted into the Persian army, are believed to have further aided the Athenian cause by passing on information about the Persian cavalry ... in their heavy hoplite armor ...