Cinadon’s conspiracy and attempted coup reveal deep social tensions in ancient Sparta and a swift, disciplined response to ...

Women from the city state of Sparta had more freedoms than Athenian women ... One of the most famous stories of women in ancient Greece was a society of warrior women known as the Amazons.

The Ancient Greeks may have had it better than we do in 2025. Imagine a world where leaders sought answers from a priestess instead of “experts.” From the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE, the ...

Ephesus: An ancient Greek city-state in Anatolia. A well-preserved facade of the Celsus Library. Credit: Benh LIEU SONG Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 While Athens and Sparta dominate history book ...

Ancient Greece’s Hoplites - Warriors of the City-State. Posted: 7 April 2025 | Last updated: 7 April 2025. Armed with spear and shield, Hoplites weren’t professional soldiers - they were ...

Asini was an important city during the Mycenaean era (1750-1050 B.C.E.), and continued to flourish even as other Bronze Age settlements collapsed. Though the city was destroyed by the invading Argives ...

Ancient Athens, located in the region of Attica, emerged as a powerful city-state in Greece during the 5th century BC. This period, often referred to as the “Golden Age of Athens,” saw the city become ...

We have the 6-letter answer for GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "ancient city in the Peloponnese, southern Greece" crossword clue, last seen in the Missing Letter Crossword February 28, 2025 puzzle. Let us help ...

Sparta Councilman Dan Chiariello and his wife, Lisa, paid a formal visit to Sparta, in the Greek state of Laconia, in early September. Chiariello was invited to speak at the fourth annual conference ...

This 2013 astronaut photo shows a giant eye-shaped impact crater in the Sahara Desert that is slowly being circled by migrating sand dunes, helping researchers track how far these dunes can move ...

But in a way, these traits hold true for ancient Greece as a city-state culture (to use the expression forged by Mogens Hansen, the great Danish historian of the polis, who died earlier this year).