Little did Leonidas know that over 2,500 years later, "Molon Lave" would be used as a global marketing tool -from weapons to ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

It was a suicide mission, designed to detain the Persians just long enough for the rest of the Greek allies to gather their forces. Led by King Leonidas, the Spartans heroically held the Persians ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

Unlike in ancient Greece, women get to vote ... He led the Athenian navy in the war with Persia, but was later banished. This is a terracotta statue of Nike, the goddess of victory.

This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also ...

TEHRAN-The Persian translation of the book “The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today” ...