Despite opposition, the Municipality of Trifylia, southern Greece, uprooted a historic tree, tied to the Greece's War of ...

The grand strategies of Sun Tzu and Thucydides converge on a central idea: true victory lies in avoiding direct confrontation ...

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

Lysistrata” chronicles the story of a young Greek woman weaponizing her sexual prowess for the greater good. What lessons can ...

Students of realism, the dominant school of thought in international politics, consider the Melian Dialogue a good starting ...

Built for an army cooperation role, the Lysander excelled as a flagship for spying missions. “Some talk of Alexander and some ...

The Assassin's Creed series has taken us to many locales, and these are by far the best settings we've visited in the games.

There’s nothing a dragon loves more than tacos, which is why the dragons throw taco parties every year. As a reader, it’s ...

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 ...

Remember that line. Does it speak to you of today? The siege of Melos took place in 416BC during the Peloponnesian War between democratic Athens and Sparta. Melos was a small neutral Greek island.

Allison but refers to a comment made more than 2,400 years ago by Greek historian and military commander Thucydides in the History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides believed the path to the war ...