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3D reconstruction of ancient Corinth in the 2nd Century CE, version 2.0. This is completely rebuilt edition, which correctly represent the city layout as it was under the Roman reign. This edition is built in a game engine, so in a near future...

Tyrannies existed across the Greek world from the city-states to the islands of Sicily and Samos. Most historians date the Great Age of Greek Tyranny from 750 to 500 BCE, ending with the ousting of Hippias; however, some authors extend the...

The Treaty of Versailles, signed in June 1919, was an agreement between the victors of the First World War (1914-18) which redivided parts of Europe and imposed reparations, armament limitations, and total blame for the war on Germany, one...

The Pentecontaetia (Pentekontætia, πεντηκονταετία) or “the account of the fifty years” is a term first used by Thucydides to describe, in Book 1, Sections 89 to 117 (1.89-117) of his History of the Peloponnesian War, the period between the...

Timoleon (c. 411 - c. 337 BCE) was a Corinthian statesman and general who famously defeated the tyrant of Syracuse Dionysius II and an army of Carthage against the odds. Permanently settling on the island, he re-organized the governments...

A cartoon highlighting the principal weakness of the League of Nations, that the United States, despite being instrumental in founding it in 1919, did not become a member. (From Punch magazine, December, 1919)

A map illustrating the members of the Delian League, led by Athens c. 431 BCE.

The Achaean League was a Hellenistic period confederation of Greek city states on the northern and central Peloponnese between 280 BCE and 146 BCE.

A 1923 photograph of the Assembly of the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Emperor Haile Selassie's (1892-1975) League of Nations speech in 1936 against the Fascist Italian invasion. Bettmann Archive.