The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Athens’ victory at Marathon sparked fear that drove expansion and the fragile evolution of Athenian democracy.

Alcibiades was a gifted politician and general, but he is ultimately remembered as a traitor to Athens for defecting to ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...