Historian Roel Konijnendijk reviews examples of ancient battles in "Gladiator II," "The Lord of the Rings," and "House of the ...

Nelson comes face to face with the French fleet of Napoleon in Egypt, for the ultimate naval face off. One of the greatest ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Roel Konijnendijk teaches ancient history at Lincoln College, Oxford University. He rates 10 battle scenes in movies and television for realism. He discusses the ...

The defeat of the Persian navy at Salamis in 480 was by ... Herodotus described the battle as 'the finest victory in all history known to me.' (Herod. Book 9) ...

The thirty tyrants of Athens were only in power for eight months but still managed to kill five percent of the city's population.