Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

Scholars have identified interesting parallels between the military alliances of NATO and the ancient Athenian-led Delian ...

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male was ...

Greek historians like Herodotus are famous for writing down some of the first-ever Western historical records and waxing poetic about the skirmishes and wars waged throughout Ancient Greece. But just ...

Geochemical evidence reveals that armies in the Battles of Himera were a mixture of locals and outsiders, according to a study published March 24, 2021 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Katherine ...

From ancient Greek fire to flamethrower drones in 2024, fire's legacy as a weapon blazes on. Who knew tech could reignite the past?

Peter Hunt, associate professor and chair of classics, demonstrates a mock blood sacrifice during a spear-and-formation exercise in his Alexander the Great and the Rise of Macedonia class. Photo by ...