Few men have lost as great a battle yet been so celebrated for it as has Leonidas of Sparta.
It was the summer of 480 BCE and a vast Persian army was on the march with a single goal: subduing all of Greece. The only path they could possibly take into Greece proper went…
Scholars often divide the history of ancient Greece into six relatively distinct periods, but only five of them belong to the history of those ethnically Greek.
Though often included in Greek history, the Minoan civilisation of Bronze Age Crete and its contemporaries – the Helladic civilisation of mainland Greece and…
Cleon was an Athenian politician who lived in the fifth century BCE. He was the first prominent politician in Athens to come out of a merchant class, his father owning a successful tanning business.
Cleon first came to attention in the scene of Athenian politics in the 430s BCE as an outspoken opponent…
Opening an athletic magazine today we are met with diets, supplements, and energy boosters, all designed with excelling at a particular sport in mind. Gone are the days of the well-rounded gentleman athlete that Baron Pierre de Coubertin had in mind when he sought to re-establish the Olympic Games in 1894. The amateurs those…
Man is by nature a political animal.
Once again I come across this phrase, which happens to be a quote by Aristotle, used as a justification for a jaded perception on mankind’s manipulations.
Of course, that is not at all what Aristotle intended.
In fact politics – the art and science of…
