Few events have symbolised the strength of Iranian soft power quite as effectively as an activist in Chicago last April urging his attentive American audience of ‘trainee protesters’ to chant ‘marg ...

The Stele of the Vultures in the Louvre Museum, showing both front and back. Credit: Kikuyu3 / Wikimedia Commons Now, part of Eannatum’s reign, at least his military campaigns, is known to us thanks ...

Cyropaedia, with an English translation by Walter Miller by Xenophon; Miller, Walter, 1864-1949 Publication date 1914 Publisher London W. Heinemann Collection robarts; toronto; university_of_toronto ...

Cyropaedia, Volume Two, Books Five-Eight by Trans Xenophon; Walter Miller Publication date 1914-01-01 Publisher Harvard University Press Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive ...

The essay competition is not running in 2024. Please see here for other outreach activities. 2023 WINNERS HERE To inspire students to explore the ancient world, the UCL Department of Greek and Latin ...

Xenophon also wrote “Cyropaedia,” which not only outlined both the military and political methods used by Cyrus the Great to conquer the late Assyrian Empire in 539 BC but outlined his thoughts on the ...

Back in the 1970s I was teaching English at Lycée Saint-Exupéry in a working-class quarter of Marseille. One day, some French friends of mine announced that they were planning to compete in a ...