This week the Greek parliament voted through the harshest austerity measures to date — a condition of another IMF/EU bailout aimed to avoid bankruptcy. In response, the Athens streets erupted in riots ...
"New Orleans," wrote A. J. Liebling in 1961, lies "within the orbit of a Hellenistic world that never touched the North Atlantic." Each May, New Orleanians are reminded of their city's Grecian aura at ...
If someone were to mention the date 480 BCE to you, you might not realize its significance. Not right off, anyway. But if someone were then to yell out, “This is SPARTA!” you’d probably – thanks to ...