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 ...

The Donald’s case is no different. Now that he can, he will, and to hell with the consequences–which are terrible suffering for the Iranian people, whose great misfortune is to live where American and ...

Spartan warriors stand along the shores of Greece, taunting the Athenian troops aboard their naval ships. Athens controls the ...

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, which lasted from 431 to 404 BCE, is one of the most defining conflicts in the history of the ancient ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If the PLAN officers reflect the conventional outlook among China’s decision-makers—and there’s little reason to think otherwise—then protracted strategic competition ...

Sparta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent twenty-eight-year growth in Lacedaemonian power and ...

Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) holds crucial lessons about the nature of great power war, beyond the much-vaunted cause and effect construction of the outbreak of ...

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 ...