Legendary for their ferocious combat skills, the Spartans built a warrior culture in ancient Greece unsurpassed for its courage and military prowess. Eminent ...

This is the first of three dialogues with Oscar-winning film director Oliver Stone and historians Paul Cartledge and James Romm on the life and legacy of Alexander The Great (356-323 B.C.). Stone ...

Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge and A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture (2008-2014), University of Cambridge, emeritus. His book Democracy: A Life ...

This webinar explores contemporary political and social issues, including the nature of populism and authoritarianism and the treatment of disenfranchised groups, through the lens of ancient Athens ...

Alexander the Great's brilliant military campaigns in the fourth century B.C. spread not only his reputation as a heroic and ingenious leader but also the culture of ancient Greece throughout the ...

I'm reviewing these two new biographies of Alexander the Great without having seen the Oliver Stone film, so I have to forgo the customary snarling about how the movie falsifies reality. I can say, ...

Paul Cartledge's subject in "Thermopylae" is the Greeks vs. Persians battle of 480 B.C., one of those conflicts that ideologists of all sorts have loved to fight, fight and fight again. It is almost 2 ...

Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with renowned Greek scholar, Paul Cartledge, about the history of democracy in ancient Greece. Its rise, its fall and why still matters today. Professor Cartledge is ...