Discover the life and legacy of Lycurgus, Sparta's legendary lawgiver, whose reforms forged a society of equality and military discipline.

The ancient Greek society was a complex mix of ingenuity, brutality, eccentricities and practices that you may define as cultural rites that often fall outside of contemporary expectations. Of the ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back -- not just from Marathon ...

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

Sparta and Athens. Names recognizable across the globe. They were once the powerhouses of Ancient Greece, and it was the ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

In the 4th century BC, the Greek engineer Aeneas of Stymphalus devised a groundbreaking communication system known as the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Those who study Greek mythology may have noticed similarities between towns like Homer, Castor, Alexandria, Athens, Eros, Sparta, Urania, and Arcadia, Louisiana, and the ...

An ancient tomb was unearthed in Italy during the laying of electrical cables underground, officials said. Photo from Patrimonio Subacqueo While laying electrical cables beneath a street in Italy, ...

Ubisoft has unveiled Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the latest installment in the Assassin's Creed franchise. The company first teased the game in late May with a brief teaser, one it has expanded up on ...