Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government. Two kings ruled the city, but a 28-member 'council of elders' limited their powers. These men were recruited from the highest social class, the ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Sparta recently began their tour celebrating 20 years of their second album, 2004’s Porcelain, and they stopped in Brooklyn ...

Oldman, currently the star of AppleTV+ hit 'Slow Horses', will head back to where he began his career at the York Theatre ...

There’s also of course Sparta, the town famous for its soldiers, said to be direct descendants of Hercules. You can visit the ...

With its oligarchic government, composed of the ephors, the Gerousia, and the two kings, Sparta’s government was an outlier ...

Oligarchic Sparta was famous for its social stratification, strict military discipline, and battlefield prowess. The two ancient Greek cities were thought, not least by one another, to stand for ...

Houston’s CLASSICAL THEATRE COMPANY has decided to take it back to the original written word and return Dracula to the status ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.

A“myth of the past” is necessary to justify “contemporary preoccupations,” writes Oswyn Murray, an emeritus fellow at Oxford. This is a profound realization, and it leads the author to a ...

A recent excavation has unearthed 12 human skeletons and a chamber of grave offerings near Petra’s Treasury building, a ...