The ancient world’s greatest city

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

An African perspective on Augustine of Hippo’s thought

The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking

Baron von Pfetten

If Philip II of Macedon had been defeated at Chaeronea in 338 BCE the history of the entire world may have looked very different

Early on 8 November 1942, Adolf Hitler’s special train was en route from Berlin to Munich when it was stopped at a small station in the Thuringian Forest to receive an urgent message from the Foreign