Classical Studies

The Greek states often fought each other. Sparta and Athens fought a long war, called the Peloponnesian War, from 431 to 404 BC. Sparta won.

A fascinating, detailed account of the most important battles of ancient Greece that helped determine the course of Greek and European history!

The Greco-Persian Wars are a sequence of wars fought between the great empire of Persia and the coalition of Greek city-states. It lasted for about half a decade from 499 BC to 488 BC.

After the defeat of the Persians in 479 B.C., Athens dominated Greece politically, economically, and culturally. The Athenians organized a confederacy of allies to ensure the freedom of the Greek cities in the Aegean islands and on the coast of Asia Minor.

Research within librarian-selected research topics on Ancient and Classical History from the Questia online library, including full-text online books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers and more.

The remains of Greco-Roman antiquity - coins, gems, sculpture, buildings, and the classics of Greek and Latin literature - fascinated the thinking men and women of the Italian Renaissance.

The flurry of development and expansion of the Archaic Era was followed by the period of maturity we came to know as "Classical Greece".

Explore classical history, Greek and Roman mythology, Latin language and literature, and the many fascinating figures of the ancient world.

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world. It is the period in which Greek and Roman society flourished and wielded great influence throughout Europe, North Africa and Southwestern Asia.

The term "classical Greece" refers to the period between the Persian Wars at the beginning of the fifth century B.C. and the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. The classical period was an era of war and conflict - first between the Greeks and the Persians, then between the Athenians and the Spartans - but it was also an era of unprecedented political and cultural achievement.

Athens in the 4th to 5th century BCE had an extraordinary system of government, whereby all male citizens had equal political rights, freedom of speech, and the opportunity to participate directly in the political arena.