During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

Israel should want to be Athens, not Sparta, two liberal Zionist academics argue.

Among the golden pages of the history of Ancient Greece there are pages blemished with the acts of traitors, men who betrayed ...

Creativity, the human brain’s greatest ability, is needed in warfare as in every other sphere of activity. It may be needed ...

This week's notable book releases promise a veritable potpourri of death — and a celebration of life from one of America's ...

International diplomacy in recent years has had the same unilateral thrust as imposing policies by military force.

Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October ...

Thalassa has been designed as a skirmish-level naval wargame set against the backdrop of the classical period, commanding the ...

The legend of Pheidippides running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory and collapsing may not be entirely accurate. There is evidence suggesting he was an ancient Greek courier who ran 153 ...

Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

The moral paradox is stunning: if Israel’s creation was a sin, then so was America’s, France’s, Turkey’s, Russia’s, and ...

“Before them, people were painting religious scenes and aristocrats. The Impressionists were like, ‘No, there’s beauty in ...