The Battle of Thermopylae, fought in 480 BCE during the Greco-Persian Wars, remains one of the most well-known conflicts in ancient history. Although the Persian Empire ultimately won the battle, the ...

The once-in-a-lifetime journey continues for KTBS 3's Rick Rowe and his fellow travelers. They are making amazing memories as they explore Ancient Greece on their vacation with Collette. One of the ...

THE BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE is one of the signal symbolic events in the history of Western civilization. Athens and Jerusalem are the standard shorthands for the West’s cultural headwaters, but at ...

Greece is upgrading Thermopylae, the site of the Spartans’ stand against the Persians, with restoration works and improved visitor access.

300 takes place in 480 B.C. when a war is taking place between Persia and Greece. King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) leads a massive army. However, King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) isn’t willing to give up so ...

In a review of George Grote’s magisterial “History of Greece,” John Stuart Mill wrote that the “battle of Marathon, even as an event in English history, is more important than the battle of Hastings.