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 ...

Who were the mysterious Phaeacians of Homer's Odyssey, and where did they live? The evidence places the Phaeacians firmly on Corfu.

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 ...

According to ancient writers and Greek mythology, the muses are the sources of inspiration for the arts and knowledge.

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday he will have a meeting with the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Cyprus, María Angela Holguín Cuellar, next Saturday, May 25 ...

But, as often, the inventor of history, Thucydides, has lessons for us. Not the so-called ‘Thucydides claptrap’ that rising and existing powers will inevitably come to blows, but from the Melian ...

3 hrs lect. 1 hr. disc. Herodotus (485-424 BC), “the Father of History”, is also regarded as the first sociologist and ethnographer. The plan and argument of his work, however, including its many ...