but had no real political rights. At the bottom were the helots: a slave class descended from those peoples who had resisted subjugation by Sparta. Because the helots were constantly rebelling ...

The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...

Even as Athens experienced a Golden Age, the conflict with Sparta largely brought about its political decline. The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset ...

SPARTA, Wis. (WEAU) - Just three months after the city of La Crosse banned camping on city grounds, the Sparta Common Council followed suit by passing a similar ban in November. Mayor Kevin Riley ...

The political historian Thucydides anticipated the Trump-Zelenskyy conversation in detail in his "History of the Peloponnesian War." The Melians had shown no aggression, but the Athenians needed to ...