From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

From Tom Hiddleston's Loki to Christoph Waltz's Hans Landa, these movies are as reprehensible as they are charismatic, stealing fans' hearts.

As to their parallel lives, Plutarch, who invented the genre, paired Scipio Africanus with the Theban general Epaminondas, not with Hannibal (who didn’t fit Plutarch’s schema, being neither Greek nor ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known for literary classics and full of contradictions.

and shared languages recorded with this alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters. By the early first millennium BCE, Phoenician cities had established a maritime network of trading ...

author of Hannibal and Caesar in the Alps, for allegedly misreading Polybius’ Greek. (If you’re keeping score, de Galbert is a Col du Clapier man.) Hannibal (depicted in a 1722 French ...

The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel ... The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final ...

Hannibal had intended to invade Italy on the fabled track used by the mythical Hercules. Nevertheless, in the way was the independent Greek city-state of Massalia, a fortified city with an army and ...

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

Ancient Greek sources described it as a nasty concoction ... In a naval battle fought in around 184 B.C. between Hannibal and the Hellenistic king Eumenes II of Pergamum, Hannibal stuffed ...