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Discipline: Lessons from the Ancient World

Written by David Hooker, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Derived from the Latin discipulus, “discipline” has several shades of meaning. It can mean a branch of knowledge or learning, or “a training that develops self-control, character, or efficiency,” or submission to an authority and a system of rules, such as those for military purposes, or a

Written on May 22, 2020 at 6:23 am, by David Hooker

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Categories: Philosophy

Tags: Antonine plague, Athenian Plague, Coronoa virus, Discipline, Leonidas, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Roman legionnaires, Roman military, Spartans, Stoic, Stoicism, stoics

Athens First

By Van Bryan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Recently, your editor asked a question… Is nationalism “good”? How interesting, we thought to ourselves. Immediately, hand went to chin. We furrowed our eyebrows in earnest ponderance. Some questions stay with you, dear reader. Like a sore on the roof of your mouth that would go away if

Written on July 1, 2019 at 1:50 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Wars

Tags: Athens, Edith Hall, Funeral Oration, Leonidas, Myths, Nationalism, Peloponnesian war, pericles, Plato, Sparta, The Republic, Yuval Noah Harari

After 300: The Posthumous Vengeance of King Leonidas of Sparta

By Riley Winters, Contributing Writer, Ancient Origins Mythologically descended from the hero Herakles, the Agiad dynasty of ancient Sparta reigned alongside the Eurypontids almost since the beginning of the city-state. When war was on the borders of their land, and that of their neighboring city-states, it was to the current Heraklean descendent that those city-states

Written on April 3, 2018 at 6:08 pm, by plato

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Categories: Wars

Tags: Athenians, battle of mycale, battle of plataea, Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas, Spartans

Greco-Persian Wars

The Persian wars were a series of engagements between the massive Persian empire and the various city states of ancient Greece over the course of 40 years (499-449 BCE). The tension between the Greeks and the empire of Persia is believed to have been a result of the violent uprising known as the Ionian Revolt in

Written on July 17, 2013 at 5:57 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Wars

Tags: 300, Athens, Leonidas, Persia, Sparta, Themistocles, Xerxes

Sparta

Athens and Sparta are often considered two of the most, if not the most, influential of the ancient Greek civilization; their progress in philosophy, literature and warfare would come to shape much of our idea of ancient Greece. There is no doubt that these civilizations were very influential. However, it could be argued that they

Written on June 6, 2013 at 6:12 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Places

Tags: Ancient Greece, Athens, helots, Leonidas, Sparta

Thermopylae: Battle in the Shade

The year was 480 BC and the Battle of Thermopylae was about to commence. King Leonidas I was dispatched from Sparta with only his royal bodyguard of 300 men to help him stop the oncoming Persian invasion, led by Xerxes I. Fortunately Leonidas was not entirely alone. He was able to procure more soldiers: an

Written on April 17, 2013 at 6:52 pm, by Anya Leonard

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Categories: Wars

Tags: 300, Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas, Sparta, Thermopylae, Xerxes