Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

Sanctions date back to antiquity, with the "Megarian Decree" issued by Athenian statesman Pericles in 432 BC being the first recorded ...

And even universities, a bastion of progressive ideology, are suddenly backing away a bit, or treading carefully. Almost all ...

A self-made king who led the Maratha opposition against Aurangzeb, revolutionizing Indian society and governance.

Connecticut commemorates the Holocaust every May with a solemn ceremony at the state Capitol building, a Victorian landmark that features an overlooked stone relief depicting a 1637 attack on a Pequot ...

Uberto Pasolini trades a fantastic voyage for an intense portrait of a marriage as the long-suffering Odysseus, played by Ralph Fiennes, returns from the Trojan War.

A much-loved figure in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Adewale was an escaped slave who served as quartermaster ... of showcasing the brutality that Sparta is renowned for. Her story is expanded ...

But there is no question that the document drafted by the victorious colonists to formally end the war, the Treaty of Hartford of 1638, directed that surviving Pequots be sold into slavery and ...

All the best Assassin’s Creed games are about family. The Ezio trilogy, long considered the peak of the series, is built on ...

Spartacus (1960) One of the three Stanley Kubrick films listed by Willis, Spartacus is a historical epic film starring Kirk Douglas as the title character: a Thracian slave who leads a rebellion ...

Slaves filled many different positions in Greek culture working ... At just seven years old, all male Spartan boys were taken from their families and placed into an intense training regiment known as ...