Antiquity

Every time I watch the movie Gladiator I cringe. Not because I don`t like that kind of movie, I actually love them, but because of the extremely bad choice of…

Many movies like to portray the wrong Idea that gladiators just fought against whatever Gladiator they could find. That is not true. Actually, each Type of Gladiator had a specific…

Alexander had inherited one of the most powerful armies of the ancient world from his father. His father, Phillip II of Macedon had transformed Macedonia from an insignificant member to…

During the classical period of Greece the main military power of the greek city-states laid in the Hoplites. But what is a hoplite, which requirements did you have to meet…