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

Myths have had a huge influence on the world. Although they may not be true, the events of Greek myth may have taken place in ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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 ...

Musk was responding to a report claiming that young men aged 19 to 24 with "little to no government experience" were playing ...

wrote that such helmets were used by warriors from many other ancient Greek city-states, including Sparta. The object is "a rare and exceptionally well-preserved bronze Greek helmet, possibly ...

That resonance may account for the flurry of Ancient Greek tragedies now thronging ... the Greeks had butchered their men and burned their city. You can imagine. Euripides, who wrote the play ...

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 ...

The best victory isn’t the loudest or most violent—it’s the one that makes your opponent run for the hills. Psychological ...

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