Athens' underdog victory stunned Persia At the Battle of Marathon, Athens' underdog victory stunned Persia History's first superpower sprang from ancient Iran History's first superpower sprang ...

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for Greece and the world.

The map below shows the location of Athens and Sparta. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the Saronic Gulf. Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ...

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire ... brought democracy to Athens, Confucius died in 479 BC, a ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

they were to face the vaunted Persian Empire alone. What to do? The 10 Athenian generals were split, five in favor of staying and fighting, five favoring returning to Athens to make a stand within ...

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