Bold, fickle, just, a brilliant military man and a restrained ruler, he is considered one of the great men of his time and one of the most famous enemies of the fledgling republic of Rome. Even Hannibal praised his talent, including him along with Alexander and himself in his list of the three best
The hoplite phalanx was not a simple standard deep battle formation like its predecessors. The formation and the battle system introduced with it (according to tradition) by Argios Pheidon constituted an unprecedented military revolution, which was to determine the fate of Hellenism some two centuri
The public education system in the Greek state of the 19th century. was founded during the time of the Othonian monarchy with a series of regency decrees (1833-1837). It was applied without serious structural changes for about a century. Essentially, it was a complete transplant of the Bavarian mode
Second entry in the series dedicated to the Battle of Stoke Field. We had left the first entry in this series with the defeat of the rebel army against Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke Field on June 16, 1487, and with the question of whether history could have some connection with the mystery of the