The thirty tyrants of Athens were only in power for eight months but still managed to kill five percent of the city's population.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... of its unique culture is impossible to ignore. Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

The map below shows the location of Sparta and Athens. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

If there was any Greek state that could stand toe-to-toe ... is a welcome corrective to the jingoism of 300. The case of ...

The Trojan War supposedly involved cities from all over Greece. Which cities in particular are mentioned by Homer's Iliad?

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.

In America, a new model is being proposed, one that harks back to the ancient world and the work of Thucydides, the historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Prof Graham ...