After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
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Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Strabo tells us that the city of Side was founded around the 7th century BCE by Greek...
The Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic successor state of Alexander the Great’s empire, which at its height...
The myth of Theseus’ sacred journey’ continued to be re-enacted in an Athenian state festival held in...
Clay model of a first century Roman War Ship / Museum of Sparta The story of modeled ships...
Potters began to enrich vases in the Geometric Period with depictions of people, animals, ships, and more....
Greek city-states developed different forms of governance with very different political structures and strengths. The Emergence of...
Punishment for cheating and bribery in the Olympics of Ancient Greece could include fines, public flogging and...
Epaminondas transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent...
The sound quality in ancient times was likely much better than it is today. By Brigit Katz It...
Examining the ancient Greek interpretation of freedom and its collateral of responsibility. Scientific Deliberation and Practical Wisdom―Exclusive...
Athenians preferred to memorialize punishments for eternity. By Dr. Danielle S. AllenJames Conant Bryan University Professor of...
Analyzing the Hasmonean rulers’ approach to Hellenistic culture. Abstract The archaeological excavations of the Hasmonean palaces in...
The dead wait to be ferried across the River Styx. The Souls of Acheron (1898) by Adolf Hiremy...
Tablet with Instructions for the Deceased in the Underworld, 350–300 B.C., Greek. Gold, 7/8 × 1 7/16...
The weapon ceased to exist by the time the Ottoman Empire finally conquered Constantinople in 1453. September...
The napalm of ancient warfare. By Mark CartwrightHistor Introduction Greek Fire was an incendiary weapon first used in Byzantine...
Constructing a “national” identity of the Athenian inhabitants during the tyrannical governance of Peisistratos and his sons....
From simple, organized Greek farmers to a powerful, flexible army. By Ian Joseph BA Cultural Anthropology, The University...
Alexander the Great’s cause of death has been contentious since antiquity. By Nathan Gamble (left) and...
There is evidence that he was an actual historical king who ruled from the city of Sardis, though...
Figure 1: Greek Colonization of western Asia Minor / Image by Alexikoua, Wikimedia Commons The development of...
A general overview of the ruins at Miletos / Photo by John Hansen, Wikimedia Commons It can...
Despite its economic crises, Greece did not falter in its mission to support arts and culture. Rhodes,...
Sacello Ipogeico (Heroon), Paestum, Italy / Photo by Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons Hero cults were one of the most...
Athens city walls / Photo by GreeceGuy, Wikimedia Commons Critically examining elements of both anthropocentric and non-anthropocentric environmentalism...
Exploring Xenophon’s ideas of virtue in leadership, excellence, and happiness. By Dr. Nili Alon Amit / 12.31.2016 Humanities...
A brief historical context of Xenophon’s Anabasis By Ian Joseph BA Cultural Anthropology, The University of Chicago...
Part of Themistocles’s wall in Kerameikos / Wikimedia Commons Built in several phases, they provided a secure...