In his latest work, “The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy,” ancient Greek historian Stephen P. Kershaw has produced a thorough study of the ...

The Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BCE during the Greco-Persian Wars, remains one of the most well-known conflicts in ancient history. Although the Persian Empire ultimately won the battle, the ...

BC · 1941 at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance explores the remarkable connection between the ancient Battle of Thermopylae ...

There are few more captivating tropes in storytelling than the doomed band of heroes facing off against a far superior force. And there is perhaps no better precedent for this archetype than one of ...

King Leonidas looked out upon the glinting mass of Persians winding up the valley toward him like the enameled back of a snake. He could hear the distant rumble of clanging armor and shouting men as ...

Oxford University classics scholar Kershaw (The Enemies of Rome) explores in this detailed and wide-ranging history the immediate and long-term impacts of the Persian Wars in ancient Greece. Drawing ...