The powerful Greek city-state overreached itself and saw its influence decline as it failed to integrate conquered territories

Classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

All serious scholarship on ancient Sparta has to be conducted within the penumbra of the ‘mirage Spartiate’, a French term coined in 1933 to describe the problem posed by idealised accounts of Sparta.

A History of England in 25 Poems: Treasures ...

What the West owes to the ancient world