A serious road accident occurred in the early hours near Sparta, leaving three men unconscious after their vehicle veered off ...

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving ...

The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long series of conflicts between Athens and Sparta that lasted from 431 until 404 BC. The reasons for this war are sometimes traced back as far as ...

The Peace of Nicias, named after the chief Athenian negotiator, was a treaty of mutual defense between Athens and Sparta in which they each agreed to defend each other for the next fifty years!

In 399 BCE, Athens put one of its greatest thinkers, Socrates, on trial. The charges? Corrupting the youth and disrespecting ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

Among the many causes of that ancient Greek war was an attempt by Athens at a variation of “nation building” within a region controlled by Sparta — an unfortunate side-effect of Athenian democracy… as ...

It was the year 467 BC when an enraged woman approached the door of the Temple of Athena Chalkioikos in Sparta and placed a ...

Thucydides’ fifth century B.C. history of the war between Athens and Sparta includes a famous debate over the use of military power known as the Melian Dialogue. Athens lands a fleet at the ...