The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

On Sparta’s Second Attic War, by Paul A. Rahe. Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent ...

Assassin's Creed Odyssey isn't just set in the Peloponnesian War - it simulates it. Greece is divided into 27 states, each with its own leader, each falling under the influence of Athens or Sparta, ...

Today Ubisoft revealed key details about Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, the series' new game based in ancient Greece, including timeline, RPG features, and release date. While Assassin's Creed: Odyssey ...

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 ...

As the war between Athens and Sparta was beginning, late in the 5th Century B.C., Thucydides, a young Athenian aristocrat, wrote that he had decided to write a history of the conflict because he ...

More Assassin's Creed Odyssey leaks are coming through the pipeline ahead of the game's likely official unveiling at E3. Last night saw the leak of over 15 Assassin's Creed Odyssey screenshots, ...

Total War: Rome 2 fans have a chance to tackle the challenges of the Peloponnesian Wars in the latest campaign DLC. Total War: Rome 2 Wrath of Sparta is a new campaign set in the Hellenic world ...

Ivan Krastev (Opinion, FT Weekend, December 21) notes the consequences of the fall of the Soviet Union and its impact on Europe. In his view, Europe responded to victory with a hubris that left it ...