A copy of Themistocles' order to evacuate Athens was discovered on stone in the back of a Greek coffee house in 1959. It reads: "The Athenians and all foreigners who live in Athens shall send their ...

Experienced gardeners, and enthusiasts of classical history, will know the importance of pruning. A popular anecdote recorded by Herodotus goes as follows: Thrasybulus, who reigned over the Greek city ...

Although Themistocles (c. 525-459 B.C.) was among of the most famous Athenians, well-known as the founder of the Athenian Navy, the architect of the defeat of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece in 480-479 B.C ...

When the Persian king, Xerxes, invaded Greece in the spring of 480 BC, he did so at the head of vast army. Once the Spartan force at Thermopylae had been defeated, his route by land to Athens was ...

In 1815, following the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte wrote a letter of surrender to the Prince Regent in England. In it, he compared himself to one of the great statesmen of ancient Athens: ...