The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred on November 17, 1973 as a massive student demonstration against the Greek military ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

the rest sailing to Athens to attack the city before the Athenian army could get back from Marathon. Surely, they would be tired! In a 19th century Romantic telling, Pheidippides runs back to ...

Unlike Athens to the north, Sparta was famed for its austerity—its “spartan” character—was, and is, proverbial. A state run by an inflexible military regime, whose people existed almost ...

Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat, strategy and ...