A historian looks at the plague that hit Ancient Athens and explains how a massive government spending plan backfired 2,500 ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...