Been to the grocery store lately? Seen another human being in the last week? If so, you have either personally seen the upwardly mobile price of eggs or listened to someone complaining about it. The ...

Founded around the ninth century B.C., Sparta’s kings oversaw a society with little interest in intellectual and artistic pursuits beyond patriotic poetry. Religion did occupy a central role in ...

In reality Isagoras ruled as the head of an oligarchy of three hundred noblemen, who in turn relied upon the military backing of Sparta. Under instructions from the Spartan king, Cleomenes ...