Josef H. Blechinger was a German soldier who became one of the greatest heroes of the resistance and saved a Greek town from ...

Socrates was a philosopher warrior, exemplifying courage, endurance and the pursuit of virtue through action as well as ...

Our first look at Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is here, and you'd be forgiven for thinking he's just any old ancient Greek soldier. We've known for a little while now that ...

A select group of Greek soldiers including Odysseus, Menelaus and the Old Soldier spend the night inside the wooden horse outside the gates of Troy. In the morning the Soldier sees that the entire ...

Dimitrios Patsis was killed in France in 1917 fighting with the Legion of Foreigners against the Germans.However his family did not find out how he died and where his was buried. The mystery was ...

Find out about their gods and the stories told about them. The ancient Greeks at war Learn about ancient Greek soldiers, the Spartan soldier state and read about famous Greek battles. What do we ...

April 18 was a tragic day: Prime Minister Alexandros Koryzis took his own life, and the Greek forces, poorly equipped to fight against armored divisions, were finally encircled. They had to surrender, ...

Now, after allowing 13 soldiers to fight in a replica of the suit, researchers have declared the 3,500-year-old design fit for battle. Discovered in the southern Greek village of Dendra in 1960 ...

Each soldier bore a long lance and (5 ... Sparta’s battle methods were similar to those employed elsewhere in the Greek-speaking world. Hoplite warriors formed phalanxes, which advanced in ...