The opposition between East and West, Europe and Asia, Us and Them stretches back into antiquity. The...
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Examining the main flaws in the court system in the days of Homer. By Dr. Alexandr LoginovProfessor...
![Parthenon [facade], page 2 (recto)](https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/112519-27-History-Ancient-Greek-Greece-Law-Government-300x209.jpg "Rule of Law as the Measure of Political Legitimacy in the Ancient Greek City-States 3")
The ideal was formulated in the Archaic period and became a feature of Greek identity. Abstract This...
There are definite sources of influence on early Greek culture to be found in the history of...
In mythology, the Amazons were daughters of Ares, the god of war. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction In...
The city-state of Sparta, and much of the eastern Mediterranean, was also struck by the disease. Introduction...
He looted the city and burned it to the ground. Introduction In the year 330 BCE Alexander...
The Four Hundred government in Athens suffered from instability as conflict soon arose between moderates and extremists...
The role of priestess at Delphi was enormously influential. She was consulted on everything from warfare to...
The apogee of one’s training was to comprehend the laws and to be a vital member of...
For the ancient Greeks, music was viewed as quite literally a gift from the gods. By Mark...
The cataclysmic eruption of Thera split the island of Santorini into three smaller ones. By Jenna Frawley...
The religious practices of the Greeks extended beyond mainland Greece. Introduction Ancient Greek religion encompasses the collection...
The scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
Agamemnon received heroic worship from the establishment of the sanctuary at Amyklai along with his consort Kassandra,...
Neither the course nor the conclusion of the Peloponnesian War was foreseeable at its outset. Of the...
A substantial amount of the artifacts in the Thracian archaeological record comes from diverse cultural and stylistic...
The Lacedaemonians abandoned the grand strategy they had articulated early on. Introduction In ancient Lacedaemon, as in...
Agriculture was the foundation of the Ancient Greek economy. Nearly 80% of the population was involved in this activity.[1] Agricultural...
Darius took personal command of his army for this encounter and led them to a resounding defeat....
In a gradual process of Hellenization, the Samaritans developed their own variant of Hellenism. When Alexander the...
Alexander the Great pushed east into Mesopotamia with the intention of bringing Darius to battle. Introduction After...
The attack had been six years in the making, and still, the Persians were not fully prepared....
Political and moral views are framed in terms of a fight between patriot and traitor, law and...
The Bacchanalia were Roman festivals of Bacchus based on various ecstatic elements of the Greek Dionysia. Introduction...
The alliance’s name derives from the island of Delos, where the League originally housed its treasury. By...
The League gave Sparta protection from uprisings within its own borders and eventually secured its dominance in...
After looting its treasures, Alexander burned the great palace and surrounding city to the ground, as Xerxes...
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...