By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

The Trojan War, famously recounted by 8th century BCE poet Homer in the Iliad, has been a subject of awe and debate among ...

He examines the staples of ‘European collective memory’, focusing on the founding historians of Greece and Rome, Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius and Livy, all of whom, in their different ways, laid ...

Authors read include Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Plutarch, Xenophon, and the Greek orators. 2 hrs. lect., 1 hr. disc. This course is an introductory survey of Roman history, from the ...

Thucydides, the Athenian historian of the 5th century BCE, observed in the “Peloponnesian War” that “It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war ...

Known as the grandfather of history, Herodotus was ancient Greek scholar wrote at length about the ancient world, including details of the Great Pyramid’s construction, however the accuracy or truth ...

“The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.” So wrote Thucydides in the “History of the Peloponnesian War,” and the Greek historian’s cold-eyed observation still hold ...

The Scythians—nomadic horse-warriors whose culture emerged and flourished between the 9th century BCE and the 3rd century CE—were, for Herodotus, a riddle wrapped in ritual, clad in gold and ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In a recent presidential statement, Donald Trump avoided the phrase “Armenian genocide” in what might be considered an olive branch ...

I should have. Today’s world is lurching toward great-power rivalry, suspicion, and fear—an international order where the strong do what they will, as Thucydides wrote, and “the weak suffer ...