The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...
Long before the famous stand at Thermopylae, Sparta had already forged itself into something unlike any other civilization in ...
Sparta’s entire culture centered on war. A lifelong dedication to military discipline, service, and precision gave this ...
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The fall of Miletus, Sparta's refusal, and the Persian shadow over Greece before Marathon
From the doomed embassy of Aristagoras to the courts of Sparta, to the burning of Miletus and the improbable Athenian stand at Marathon, this is the story of a fractured Greek world confronting the ...
Inspired by a show called 'The rise and fall of Sparta' on the HC, an interesting thought occurred to me; If Xerxes had succeeded in taking all of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars (499 BC to 479 BC) ...
I’VE been fascinated and horrified by the Spartans since I was a schoolboy studying ancient Greece. Even at 13, I could see they were a proto-fascist state, high on militarism and supremacy. This ...
The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...
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