Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

Thus by the time Athens had reached its height in the 430's BC, its greatest democratic leader, Pericles, could quite reasonably declare: 'Our whole city is an education, for our citizens excel ...

Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular for his rivals to topple him as the city's leader. So instead, they attacked his close associates in the courts.

As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426. The dead included Pericles, the populist leader who had turned Athens into an imperial power. The Peloponnesian War ...

The Acropolis is a massive archaeological site brimming with the artistic monuments and wonders of ancient Greece. Here are ...

Pericles, in an attempt to win the hand of the daughter of King Antiochus, accepts a challenge from the king. He must answer a riddle to win her hand but if he fails, he will be put to death ...