Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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This essay is part of Companion Fare, a series of personal stories about traveling with loved ones.

Legendary CBS News correspondent Bob Simon's family and coworkers are remembering him 10 years after his death. The award-winning newsman, who died suddenly in a Feb. 11, 2015 car accident in New York ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

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A little over a year ago, University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Luke Farritor was showered with international accolades for ...

The men of Kampfgruppe Falken were expendable, a cannon fodder unit easily replaced – or that’s what General Heiss thought.

Load Map What is the travel distance between Sparta, Greece and Athens, Greece? How many miles is it from Athens to Sparta. 95 miles / 152.89 km is the flight distance between these two places. Use ...

Load Map What is the travel distance between Montreal, Canada and Sparta, Greece? How many miles is it from Sparta to Montreal. 4716 miles / 7589.67 km is the flight distance between these two places.

Sparta was one of the most powerful city-states in antiquity. The ancient capital of the Laconia district of the southeastern Peloponnese in Greece, Sparta was a warrior society where males aged seven ...