The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...

Outnumbered and undaunted, Spartan warriors and other Greek troops held firm in the face of Persia's might, until treachery brought King Xerxes' fury down upon them in 480 B.C. Undaunted“By this time ...

The only way to grasp intra-elite strife at Sparta is to focus on the two royal families of the Agiads and Eurypontids. The continuing rivalry that marked their relationship was inevitably reflected ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Total War: Rome II - Campaign Pack: Wrath of Sparta Wrath of Sparta introduces an entirely new, epic campaign expansion for Total War: Rome II focusing ...

The history of classical Greece is largely defined by divisions, both within and between city-states. Revolutions and coups, shifts in alliances and alignments, and nearly continuous balance-of-power ...

The reaction of the Athenians to the Sicilian defeat was to look for scapegoats. Spartan forces now occupied Attica and over the next few years more than twenty thousand slaves defected to the enemy ...