Ancient History & Mythology

Ancient Warfare

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Reconstruction of the Battle of Marathon painted by Polygnotos in the Stoa Poikile

Ancient WarfareApril 13, 2025

The Persian Wars: The Battle for Western Civilization

When the Persian emperor Darius sent his fleet across the Aegean in 490 BCE, few would have bet on the Greek city-states' survival. What followed, Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, became the founding battles of Western self-identity.

The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Ancient WarfareFebruary 20, 2025

The Trojan War: Where Myth Meets History

For centuries, scholars dismissed the Trojan War as pure legend. Then Heinrich Schliemann started digging. What he found, and what archaeologists have uncovered since, suggests that behind Homer's epic lies a kernel of genuine Bronze Age reality.