The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

He was no ordinary fugitive but none other than Pausanias, who had been regent of Laconia and the victor of the famous Battle of Plataea. Let us see how he came to such a dire situation. The ...

Like the siege of Plataea by the Spartans two millennia before, WWI illustrated that Europeans don’t know when to give up once the fighting starts. Their seeming inability, or unwillingness, to quit ...

Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 5th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

With the Battle of Plataea, the Persians plundered Athens and destroyed the Acropolis: its temples, statues, walls and Propylaea were razed to the ground. They beheaded the votive sculptures, reducing ...

He wears a hat and cape adorned with peacock feathers, sports a Don Quixote-esque goatee along with black eyeliner and a pearl earring, was supposedly born in 896 BC Egypt, and also fought alongside ...

For thousands of years, naval battles have been some of the most decisive military conflicts. Controlling the seas allows victors to dominate ports, trade routes, and encircle opponents. With such ...

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Persian Fire, by Tom Holland The faultline of world history lay at the Hellespont, 3,000 years ago. William Napier relishes an epic retelling of the battles of Marathon, Salamis and Thermopylae ...

For millennia, naval battles have been some of the most important military conflicts. Controlling the seas gives the victors control of major ports and shipping routes, and the ability to encircle ...