During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

The ancient Greeks of India ruled a large kingdom in South Asia until the Scythian nomads, called Sakas, fought against them.

The complex relationship between Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, marked by rivalry, admiration, and a legacy of ...