After the victorious battles against the Persians at Thermopylae, Artemisium, Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and Mycale, Athens lay in ruins and the Greeks understood, in no uncertain terms, that they’d have to work together to keep the Persian Empire away from colonies in Ionia (what is, today, the Anatolian Peninsula and its coastal islands) and even mainland Greece. Once the initial Persian attacks had been rebuffed, […]
Go tell the Spartans
The works of the Seven Sages (regardless of the exact names on the list) inspired Greek thinkers for centuries, afterwards, and some of those most inspired appeared in Classical Athens. However, the greatest works of the Athenian philosophers, ironically, took place during one of the city’s darkest periods, following a defeat by a league of enemies led by the city-state of Sparta. So, before we […]