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Democracy Thrives in Israel

The American Spectator 31 Mar 2025
A thriving civic life and copious achievements in the arts and sciences demonstrate that, despite its military and security apparatus, Israel has become like democratic Athens rather than like autocratic Sparta.
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Themistocles: The Fall of a Great Ancient Greek General and Statesman

Greek Reporter 30 Mar 2025
It was a glorious victory contributed to a clever general who loved his city-state of Athens and did his best to protect it from the mighty army of Xerxes ... In fact, Sparta honored Themistocles for his victory.
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Greeks VS Persians: The Battle of Mycale That Shaped Ancient Greece

Greek Reporter 30 Mar 2025
Credit ... These men came from Athens, Sparta, Corinth, as well as other not so prominent cities ... The Greek city-states, especially the two main military players, Athens and Sparta, emerged after this battle as the unchallenged powers of the Aegean ... ....
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The Laws of War in Ancient Greece

Greek Reporter 30 Mar 2025
Representatives of Athens and Corinth at the Court of Archidamas, King of Sparta, from the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides ... become a subject of Athens or resist and be annihilated.
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Six Glorious Ancient Greeks Who Had an Inglorious End

Greek Reporter 29 Mar 2025
At the same time, the Ionians of Asia Minor abandoned Sparta and offered the leadership of their united forces to Athens ... Representatives of Athens and Corinth at the Court of Archidamas, King of ...
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Pound for Pound: Speeding | The Union-Recorder

The Union-Recorder 27 Mar 2025
During that time I got acquainted with officers representing Athens-Clarke County PD (twice), Sparta PD, the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office, Madison PD, and the famed Georgia State Patrol.
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Via imperia

Dawn 27 Mar 2025
Western analysts have drawn an analogy — termed the ‘Thucydides Trap’ — between the rise of a modern China (a latter-day nouveau riche, upstart Athens) and the established might of the US (Sparta, then the leading Greek state) ... www.fsaijazuddin.pk ... .
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Travel: There’s nothing like being pampered in a spa while visiting historic Greece

Orange County Register 26 Mar 2025
The 45-room Euphoria Retreat is a wellness destination med-spa close to the Greek historical sites of medieval Mystras and ancient Sparta ... Unlike Athens, ancient Sparta’s Acropolis is free and uncrowded, set among groves of old olive trees.
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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Speaking of Pigs, and Democracy, Part One

Pagosa Daily Post 25 Mar 2025
Athens and Sparta had been allies for the previous 50 years, before the outbreak of that war ... so long as Athens didn’t infringe on the region of Greece controlled by Sparta (the Peloponnese Peninsula).
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Ian Hamilton Finlay review – the visionary Scottish poet-artist’s mind in closeup

AOL 23 Mar 2025
One gallery is filled with haunting photographs of Finlay’s artists’ signatures at Little Sparta, including his tribute to Albrecht Dürer ... I especially like the poster Shock Tropes for Little Sparta (Sparta, of course, was at war with Athens).
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Gaming in Ancient Greece: The Most Popular Board Games of Antiquity

Greek Reporter 21 Mar 2025
Credit Sailko, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 ... Petteia. The board game of flanking ... Tabula ... This very likely represented actual, real-life historical rivalries and conflicts similar to that between Athens and Sparta with which we are quite familiar ... ....
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What Race(s) Are Ukrainians? — from Tall Timbers to the Pontic Steppe, by Thomas Zaja

The Unz Review 21 Mar 2025
... Basin may have evolved in similar conditions before going on to invade Pelasgic Greece, founding the militaristic city-states of Sparta, Athens and Corinth, and eventually creating civil democracy.
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Ancient Greece’s Ionian League: The First Confederation in History

Greek Reporter 18 Mar 2025
Credit. Benh Lieu Song CC BY-SA- 3.0 ... Athens, Eretria, and other Greek allies joined the Ionian League to provide aid ... The Ionian cities frequently interacted with major powers of the ancient world, including the Persian Empire, Athens, and Sparta ... ....
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How to play the Assassin's Creed games in order (release date and chronological order)

Games Radar 14 Mar 2025
Odyssey is actually more concerned with mythology and the conflicts of the Greek world during the times of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, but it doesn't neglect the ongoing sci-fi ...
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How a Single Word Stopped a War Between Spartans and Macedonians

Greek Reporter 13 Mar 2025
... including Athens ... Sparta would not join ... the famous Sparta with its fearless warriors. Sparta and its allies had fought against Athens and its allies in the Peloponnesian War decades earlier.
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