In the Iliad, did Homer really describe the type of warfare common to the Mycenaean Era? Or was he describing the warfare of ...

researchers have declared the 3,500-year-old design fit for battle. Discovered in the southern Greek village of Dendra in 1960, the outfit is one of the oldest complete suits of European armor in ...

Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the ... in the 400s B.C. In previous centuries Greek warriors had worn very thick, heavy armor, much of which, by the classical period ...

A highly successful 'war machine', the phalanx was used ... who had forced the Greeks to run at them in full armor during the battles of Marathon in 490 and Plataea 479. These hoplite runs were ...