The friendship between Achilles and Patroclus was especially strong for another reason: Patroclus’ father, Menoetius, was the brother of Peleus, Achilles’ father, meaning they were first cousins.
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According to Pausanias, Milo once smeared a disk with oil, stood on it, and challenged other athletes and spectators to move him, which no one could do. It is also...
Still shocked, the Spartans received an immediate attack from the Thebans, who wanted to preempt any reinforcements for the besieged. And they were right. A strong force under Cleombrotus was...
Almost all the allies stood up, but none of the Spartans did; for they were forbidden to practice or learn any menial craft. Then Agesilaus laughed and said, “Do you...
Luxury items were prominent among the traded goods. Olive oil and wine, both essential staples of ancient Greek life, were widely exchanged. Grains, another fundamental resource, also moved along these...
The institution of “sissitia”influenced, shaped, and molded the citizens who embraced it, serving as a model for imitation for several cities that adopted it.
After two years of preparations (399-397 BC) and the rejection by the Carthaginian authorities of an ultimatum from the tyrant of Syracuse “that they(the Carthaginians) restore freedom to the Greek...
After weeks of maneuvers, and wishing to involve the Romans in a decisive battle, Macedonian King Philip V led 25,500 men to the foothills of “Cynoscephalae,” a series of hills...
After the pacification of the army in 327 BCE, the Greek king quelled another revolt of the Sogdians with the well-known feat of capturing the eponymous rock and moved towards...
Before the Battle of Amphipolis, the Spartan general Brasidas delivered a speech to his soldiers, about 2.000 hoplites and 300 cavalry, in which he said, among other things: “Men of...
The friendship between Achilles and Patroclus was especially strong for another reason: Patroclus’ father, Menoetius, was the brother of Peleus, Achilles’ father, meaning they were first cousins.
According to Pausanias, Milo once smeared a disk with oil, stood on it, and challenged other athletes and spectators to move him, which no one could do. It is also...
Still shocked, the Spartans received an immediate attack from the Thebans, who wanted to preempt any reinforcements for the besieged. And they were right. A strong force under Cleombrotus was...
Almost all the allies stood up, but none of the Spartans did; for they were forbidden to practice or learn any menial craft. Then Agesilaus laughed and said, “Do you...
Luxury items were prominent among the traded goods. Olive oil and wine, both essential staples of ancient Greek life, were widely exchanged. Grains, another fundamental resource, also moved along these...
The institution of “sissitia”influenced, shaped, and molded the citizens who embraced it, serving as a model for imitation for several cities that adopted it.
After two years of preparations (399-397 BC) and the rejection by the Carthaginian authorities of an ultimatum from the tyrant of Syracuse “that they(the Carthaginians) restore freedom to the Greek...
After weeks of maneuvers, and wishing to involve the Romans in a decisive battle, Macedonian King Philip V led 25,500 men to the foothills of “Cynoscephalae,” a series of hills...
After the pacification of the army in 327 BCE, the Greek king quelled another revolt of the Sogdians with the well-known feat of capturing the eponymous rock and moved towards...
Before the Battle of Amphipolis, the Spartan general Brasidas delivered a speech to his soldiers, about 2.000 hoplites and 300 cavalry, in which he said, among other things: “Men of...