It’s official: Zack Synder, the director of “ 300,” is going back into battle on the side of the ancient Greeks -- and Frank Miller. “We closed the writing deal on ‘Xerxes.’ We started ...

Boston Marathon helps celebrate the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War The wheelchair fields left Hopkinton under clear skies and cool ...

Oxford University classics scholar Kershaw (The Enemies of Rome) explores in this detailed and wide-ranging history the immediate and long-term impacts of the Persian Wars in ancient Greece ...

The Persian Wars Beyond Herodotus The story of the Graeco-Persian wars has been often told, by ancients and moderns alike. But early in this book Shepherd, a classicist with several works on Ancient ...

Persian Fire, by Tom Holland The faultline of world history lay at the Hellespont, 3,000 years ago. William Napier relishes an epic retelling of the battles of Marathon, Salamis and Thermopylae ...

On Saturday, Scott Stump, president and founder of the National Desert Storm War Memorial Association, could not commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Persian Gulf War in Washington. There was ...

Battlefield and homeland images from the Persian Gulf War, which started with the bombing on Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 16, 1991. (Composite by Tom Wrobleski/Staten Island Advance) ...

Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday as the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of the start of the ...

The last time a ‘Tanker War’ broke out in the Persian Gulf, it lasted for years June 14, 2019 More than 6 years ago Summary ...

Of all the battles fought between Greeks and Persians during the Second Greco-Persian War, the most famous are undoubtedly Thermopylae and Salamis, with Platea somewhat lesser-known. Even less known, ...