Solon Solon was an Ancient Greek best known for his career as a politician and lawmaker, whose laws set the foundation for Athenian democracy. We
Category: History
Thucydides was born in around 460 BC in Alimos, Athens. Little is known about his early life, and all that scholars know of him at
I’ve been learning about the Persian Wars recently, and am currently doing a MOOC with Hillsdale College and some Massolit courses on the subject. You
This is summary is a type-up of some notes I took while doing a MOOC with Hillsdale College (the Michigan university I’d love to go
This summary of Ancient Sparta is a type-up of my notes on an excellent Massolit course by Prof. Paul Cartledge of Clare College, Cambridge. Perhaps
This is an analysis of the writer Herodotus himself and the background and context that led to his account The Histories. I’m going to be