Seen through Greek eyes, Xerxes is remembered for Thermopylae and Salamis, yet his reign tells a far larger story. This chapter traces how Persia reached its limits in Greece, adapted through ...

South Asia was once the eastern part of the Ancient Greek world, a pivotal yet little explored part of the Greek empire and ...

After Thermopylae, the Persian invasion looked unstoppable. Athens was burned, Greek unity was fragile, and surrender seemed inevitable. But at Salamis, Greece forced Persia into the worst kind of ...

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Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11 ...

From bombastic adventures like 300 to iconic masterpieces like Gladiator, these are the best and grandest epic movies released throughout the 2000s.

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Rifleman Badluram’s extraordinary legacy from the 1944 Battle of Kohima reveals how a fallen soldier unknowingly saved his ...

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As the teaching of ancient history and classical languages falls off a cliff in our failing educational systems, Americans will rapidly lose the connection to Graeco-Roman antiquity which so deeply ...

If there is a single event that made Sparta’s military legend a seminal moment when the ‘Bronze Lie’ was forged, it is the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, fought 10 years after Marathon. Nearly ...

A dramatic passage detailing a Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire in an ancient text that had been lost to history has been found and translated into English. Fragments of the ancient historian ...