Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

Adamson To test this, Adamson built a database of 696 Greek city-states that existed between 600 and 320 BCE ... been sites of battles or of the unification of villages, what the ancient Greeks called ...

New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek city-states thrive.

Professional historians react to the first scenes of Jason and the Argonauts (1963), comparing the film's portrayal of ...

xxii. 713. Illus., maps, tables, figures, chron., notes, biblio., index. $49.95 / £42.00. ISBN:0691155380 A Comprehensive History of the Ancient Greek 'City-States' that Goes Beyond the famous places ...

Contrary to popular belief, Zeus wasn’t the ultimate god for everyone in Ancient Greece. The Greek world wasn’t one unified country — it was a collection of independent city-states (poleis ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

"The Greek historian Xenophon tells us that ... B.C.) was fought between Athens and Sparta—the two leading city-states of ancient Greece—and their respective allies. An aerial view of the ...