An earthquake in Sparta in the year 464 BCE started a series of events which ultimately led to the Peloponnesian War.
The agricultural economy was the backbone of wealth in ancient Greece. Food brought people together, whether in smaller groups at a wine-drinking symposium or the entire community in a sacrificial ...
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From Laconia to the edge of the known world, how Sparta forged its warrior state before Persia came knocking
Long before the famous clash at Thermopylae, Sparta had already transformed itself into something the ancient world had never ...
Our nation’s Founding Fathers were all acutely aware of three words that came down to us from pagan Greece—demoskratia, demagogos and oligarkhia. The delegates to the Continental Congress in 1776 ...
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