The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Some 2,500 years ago the Greek tyrant Polycrates had the engineer Eupalinus plan a 3,400-foot tunnel to supply his fortified capital with water. The tunnelers dug from both ends and met in the middle ...

When Pisistratus became tyrant of Athens in 547 BC it marked a ... power was overshadowed by many of the other city-states of Greece. During the long period of his rule, Pisistratus sought to ...

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a ... grip of Sparta on the Greek world.