In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii, 268. Maps, tables., diagr., chron., notes, biblio., index. $99.99. ISBN: 1108499503 Why Did Ancient Kings Hire Greek Mercenaries? By ...

In this relatively slim volume Prof. Sears (New Brunswick, Canada) rather impressively manages to produce an overview of some 1,200 years of warfare in ancient Greece and Hellenic-influenced areas ...

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 ...