Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Repulse of Pyrrhus from Sparta As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states ...

Athens and Sparta represented for classical thinkers distinct and opposing regimes. Democratic Athens took pride in its freedom, openness, and accomplishments in the arts and philosophy. Oligarchic ...

The Peloponnesian War shows how fear, ambition, and mistrust can escalate into full-scale conflict. Thucydides’ trap helps us understand why rising powers provoke insecurity in dominant states. By ...

Rubio's reflections on ancient Greece raise a question for Israel: Can a country remain strong while fighting on multiple fronts, or will military overreach undermine its long-term security?

The story of the marathon is often told as a simple tale: a Greek runner races from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens, ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

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