‘The History of the Peloponnesian War’ Review: Warrior and Witness

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.
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700 forgotten Thespian hoplites fell fighting alongside the Spartans at Thermopylae, a study explains why they chose to die

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) is an immortal episode in Western history. Traveler, go tell the Spartans that here we lie, obedient to their sacred laws. This epitaph, cited by the historian ...
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Real Historian Slams Zack Snyder's '300' as Inaccurate & Cartoony

300 is still considered by many to be Zack Snyder's greatest movie (in close contention with Watchmen). The bloody historical action film depicts the battle between 300 Spartan soldiers and the ...
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The Story of the Real Marathon Run in Ancient Greece

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back -- not just from Marathon ...
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Lessons of the Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into the nature of the Greeks, their culture, their ...
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This! Is! An Announcement That a '300' Series Is in the Works!

300-gerard-butler-leonidas Image via Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Television is developing a TV series based on 300, with Zack Snyder in talks to direct and produce. The show will reportedly be a prequel ...