Legendary for their ferocious combat skills, the Spartans built a warrior culture in ancient Greece unsurpassed for its courage and military prowess. Eminent ...

Fourth in a series of weekly conversations between historians James Romm [JR] and Paul A. Cartledge [PC], editor and introduction-author, respectively, of the new Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of ...

As Paul Cartledge shows in his valuable new introductory survey of Spartan culture, for much of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., Sparta’s social rigor and the checks and balances of its tripartite ...

In this erudite and highly technical history, Cartledge (After Thermopylae), emeritus professor of Greek culture at Cambridge University, revisits the roots of democracy to understand how ancient ...

Paul Cartledge's subject in "Thermopylae" is the Greeks vs. Persians battle of 480 B.C., one of those conflicts that ideologists of all sorts have loved to fight, fight and fight again. It is almost 2 ...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” In one line Keats seems to capture the essence of the Greek aesthetic philosophy that has so decisively shaped Western culture. And yet, as Paul Cartledge points out ...