Greek football has an ambitious plan to reform how the game is played in the country Yorick Jansens/Getty Images 480BC. A force of some 7,000 men, led by the Spartan king Leonidas, guard the narrow ...
Seen through Greek eyes, Xerxes is remembered for Thermopylae and Salamis, yet his reign tells a far larger story. This chapter traces how Persia reached its limits in Greece, adapted through ...