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 ...

One of the key moments in Herodotus’ chronicle of the Persian wars comes at the narrow mountain passage of Thermopylae. Hopelessly outnumbered, but never outclassed, 300 Spartans led a contingent of ...

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 ...

Oxford University classics scholar Kershaw (The Enemies of Rome) explores in this detailed and wide-ranging history the immediate and long-term impacts of the Persian Wars in ancient Greece. Drawing ...

When experiencing a certain thought, place or even the sensation of a subtle breeze, I often feel that I’ve lived this experience before. Reincarnation offers an explanation of humanity’s origin. To ...

The Killing Ground is a new and innovative look at a battlefield. Instead of confining itself to a single battle in detail, the authors have chosen a battlefield that has been fought over twenty-seven ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2013. Pp. xxii, 192. Maps, notes, biblio., index. $32.95. ISBN: 1848847912 ...

In 1842, following Mexican Gen. Adrian Woll’s invasion of San Antonio, Texas Gen. Edward Burleson is quoted as saying, “Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat; the Alamo had none.” Burleson was ...