While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

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 ...

But Ancient Greece isn’t one big country. Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states ...

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 ...

Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...