The Hellenistic period was a veritable cauldron of ambition, betrayal, and sheer bloodlust. It was an era marked by dramatic ...

The ancient Library of Alexandria was—as is known—burned, depriving the world of its wealth of knowledge. But who actually ...

Plutarch, writing for a Roman audience curious about this peculiar Greek polis ... Some Spartans voted with their feet when they were exposed to Greek life outside of their own isolated and strange ...

Best figure in the classical world? I think Livia, the wife of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, has my vote. Everyone ...