If you recall, I have written many pieces about how the ancient Greek civilization collapsed due to the Peloponnesian Wars, which began in 431 BC and lasted 27 years, fought between the 'Athenian Mari...
03.22.2026 Yenisafak.com
Lasting nearly thirty years, the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE to 404 BCE) was a complex and multifaceted affair between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta, which culminated in Spartan supremacy....
03.18.2026 Worldatlas.com
As one of the largest wars in ancient history, the Peloponnesian War (431 BCE to 404 BCE) fundamentally reshaped the Greek world by marking the end of the Athenian Golden Age and establishing a tempor...
03.21.2026 Worldatlas.com
One of the many unfortunate consequences of current developments in the Persian Gulf* is an impending shortage of titles for blog posts. ** The long-standing tradition of The Sphinx is that I generall...
03.22.2026 Thesphinxblog.com
This week offers a welcome pause from the overhyped narrative surrounding the Kentucky Derby trail for 3-year-old colts. The latest case of recency bias in horse racing centers on Virginia Derby winner Incredibolt, whose Kentucky Derby odds were cut to as low as 12-1 in some markets after that win. This surge comes despite the fact that eight of his nine rivals had beaten only maiden company or had yet to win at all. Meanwhile, the spotlight shifts to the 3-year-old fillies with the Grade 2 Fair...
03.18.2026 Horseracingnation.com
Philosophy in the modern age has became useless for the acquisition of wisdom, that is, for coming to know the true, the virtuous, the beautiful. Modern philosophers teach that nothing is certain: tha...
03.21.2026 Scifiwright.com
The kylix was an ancient Greek shallow ceramic drinking cup with two handles, made to drink wine from, and an essential item in every symposium. The word symposium (symposia or symposiums in plural fo...
03.19.2026 Greekreporter.com
Democracy and Unequal Sacrifice: Class Inequality in Athenian Imperial Warfare Elite Ambition and Democratic Decision-Making in War --> March 17, 2026 36 minutes read Illustration created by Brewminat...
03.17.2026 Brewminate.com
Acknowledging that I entered graduate school as long ago as 1985 might alert readers to the fact that I was educated as an intellectual historian during the high and heady years of deconstructionist a...
03.19.2026 Historians.org