It was the Greek military scientist named Aeneas Tacticus who developed this ingenious method of communicating messages using the simplest torch signals in the 4th century BCE. The way in which this ...
Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially ... all Persian attempts to invade the Greek lands. At other times, Sparta engaged ...
Work to lay natural gas pipelines near the foot of the Acropolis has uncovered an ancient marble statue of a young man buried almost upright in a brick-lined pit.
However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued to innovate ... is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while Euripides added ...