Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...
Sickened by the Athenian blood spilled on Minoan land, King Aegeus of Athens allowed his son, Theseus, to volunteer as a sacrifice to the maze. Believing the boy to be a competent leader and ...
Also with them was the deposed tyrant of Athens, Hippias. The Athenians immediately dispatched Phidippides to run to Spartan and seek their aid. But when he arrived there Phidippides found them in ...
Once a backwater, the Macedonian king Philip II had turned his country into a military powerhouse. Philip's decisive victory came in 338 BC, when he defeated a combined force from Athens and Thebes.