However, Sparta's dominance was not to last. Overextended and unable to adjust ... Once a backwater, the Macedonian king Philip II had turned his country into a military powerhouse.

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 ...

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 ...