During the early centuries prior to the birth of Christ, Athens and Sparta were the two most well-known Greek city-states. Since both Athens and Sparta resided in Greece, one could come to the conclusion that their societies and the culture of their city-states might be largely similar. Surprising...

How does the section of Thucydides narrative about the debate at Sparta and the declaration of war show the Spartans as being unwilling to enter into a war with Athens? Thucydides is thought by some to be the true father of history; most historians before him, such as Herodotus, could be more acc...

Minoan culture was wealthy and magnificent. Took place in the Bronze Age. King Minos, the powerful King whom the later Greeks believed had once ruled far and wide from Crete, dominating the Aegean Sea. Much about them remains a mystery b/c of the nature of the evidence. Minoan civilization flo...