Yet at its most vulnerable moment in the year 335 BC, Thebes was utterly abandoned by its luminaires. Overconfidence and ...

But “male eros” (sensual love) in Thebes wasn’t limited this way. An army that’s 50% adolescents and 100% couples scheduled to break up within 5-8 years is too unstable to be a wise long ...

The Battle of Tegyra in 375 B.C. proved that the legendary Spartan army could be defeated. A thousand Spartan soldiers, trained for combat from the age of 7, were returning from an expedition when ...