HOW ATHENS TOOK OVER LEADERSHIP OF SPARTA AFTER THE PERSIAN WARS During the period of Greek history from the last years of the Persian Wars till the beginning of the First Peloponnesian War, the primacy of Sparta declined whileAthens was gaining increased influence in Greece. The Athenian, Thuc...

Herodotus was a Greek historian, generally called the "Father of History." The work of Herodotus is the oldest surviving major Greek prose and the first history in Western civilization. He was born at Halicarnassus, a Greek state under Persian rule, in southwestern Asia Minor. After ...

Sparta and Athens are like apples and oranges: the same but different. Both are fruit grown on trees in the case of the apples and oranges, and both are city-states in Greece in the case of Athens and Sparta. Apples and oranges have distinctly different tastes, textures and flavors. Athens and Sp...

The Ancient Greeks became the first civilized people in a place where frankly early civilization just shouldn't have taken place. The Mycenaeans arrived in modern Greece around 200 B.C. There they found a dry, hot, and harsh mountainous terrain muck like the conditions found today in Arizona. By 70...