Classical Greece

The story of ancient Macedonia is one of dramatic expansion and sudden contraction, a kingdom of Greek antiquity that briefly became the center of the known world before collapsing under the weight of foreign conquest.

A few nights before giving birth, Agariste dreamed she had delivered a lion—an omen of greatness that foreshadowed the formidable figure her son would become.

To write the history of a world-shaping clash, one must first learn to listen to the world itself.

In ancient Athens, a man who wrote absolutely nothing managed to permanently reshape the trajectory of human thought.

To burn one’s own tragedies and lyric poems after a single encounter with a teacher is the act of a young man experiencing a quiet intellectual revolution.

We possess only a fraction of the words written by the man medieval scholars called simply "The Philosopher," and none of what survived was ever meant for the public eye.

By the time he was thirty years old, Alexander III of Macedon had carved an empire out of the ancient world that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the waters of the Indus River.

To understand the ancient Mediterranean is to understand the city that rose from the western edge of the Nile River Delta, near an Egyptian settlement named Rhacotis.

Centuries before it bore its current name, the Romanian port of Constanța was known to the Greek world as Tomis, a colony anchored to a high-cliffed peninsula on the edge of the Black Sea.

The Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt had governed from Alexandria for nearly three centuries, yet not one of them bothered to learn the language of the people they ruled—until Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator.