In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

Achilles is killed by a flukey arrow to the heel and Odysseus has a plan for a secret weapon to end the war - a wooden horse ... He calls a meeting of the Greek chiefs and explains that they ...

Some of Athens's architectural landmarks were destroyed to make way for modern buildings due to the rapid economic ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the ...

In the ancient Greek world, it was Athens that threatened ... powers confronting an established power: 12 of those led to war. The rivalry between Washington and Beijing is, he says, "the defining ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta ... the Persians may well have conquered Greece. Later in the same century, however, Athens found itself at war with its ferocious former ally ...