During the Battle of Himera (480 BC), ancient Greek forces defeated Carthage, ensuring their dominance in the Mediterranean.
Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance from Athens to Sparta and back -- not just from Marathon ...
Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, ...