The Price of Slaves in Ancient Greece
Slavery was pretty normal in Ancient Greece and almost nobody questioned the institution of slavery. But did that mean that slaves were cheap and everybody could afford slaves in ancient…
The timeperiod from 500 BC to 500 AD
Slavery was pretty normal in Ancient Greece and almost nobody questioned the institution of slavery. But did that mean that slaves were cheap and everybody could afford slaves in ancient…
Have you ever heard the claim that Spartan wives/mothers told their husbands/sons to either „return on their shield or with it“? When we watch movies that feature Sparta then that…
The Battle of Thermopylae, the battle where Leonidas, 300 Spartans, and a couple of thousand other – usually forgotten Greeks – fought, is one of the most famous battles in…
Today, we usually think of the state of Greece when we hear the term Greek. But the ancient Greeks did not only settle in the territory of modern-day Greece. Instead,…