Greek Hoplites were heavy infantry soldiers, citizen-soldiers who equipped themselves when called to fight for the poleis or city-state.

Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

Gov. Jared Polis has joined a growing chorus of people calling for an outside investigation into a security breach at the Colorado Secretary of State's Office. The Colorado Attorney General ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

The ancient Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and lasting until ...

This ancient city, geographically positioned on ... Gaza was completely reorganized as a “polis,” or city-state, much like all other city-states on the Greek mainland. This restructuring of the ...

Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the environment and ourselves. From Roman soldiers in crowded camps to emperors cleaning up rivers, there are many lessons to be learned.

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

It is also the location of the Ancient Greek city of Stagira, the birthplace of one of the world's most famous philosophers, Aristotle. The region is renowned for its gold deposits, mined since ...

Well, the new expansion for Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition is called Chronicles: Battle for Greece, and as you’d expect it is set in ancient Greece, covering roughly a century of history ...