Historical educational posts on Ancient Greek history. I'll be covering Greek history stretching from the Greek Bronze Age and the days of Achilles and Troy, to the Hellenistic Age of Alexander and Cleopatra, covering topics ranging from daily city life to all-out warfare. I'll also be looking a lot into Iranian/Persian history, and their infamous conflicts with the Greeks throughout history. All feedback, positive and/or negative, is very welcome. Hope ya learn plenty-a-stuff! :)
3 Dec 2025 36 minute read 6 comments YouveBeenGreeked
At the turning of the fifth to the fourth centuries BC, over a thousand miles from Greece, ten-thousand Greek mercenaries employed by a Persian general found themselves stranded deep inside Persia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. The ensuing escape s...
18 Nov 2025 1 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Quick mini-post just to let you guys know: Yes I'm alive. Been busy with work, money, and now, trying out a programming course to try and get some better work, AND: I'm now posting my blogs onto a new site as well: medium.com. For clarity: these are...
29 Aug 2025 23 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Xenophon opens his third chapter of his Histories, reminding us that in 404 BC, the ninety-fourth Olympic games in honour of Zeus were held as per usual: At this Olympiad Crocinas the Thessalian was winner in the stadium. - Book 2.3.1 [ABOVE:...
25 Aug 2025 9 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides, “History of the Peloponnesian War”, 1.23 In the long tapestry of Greek history, few names stand as tall or austere as that of Thucyd...
18 Jun 2025 29 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
He was the creator of that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare’s Othello, Racine’s Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg, in which imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their lives and hates. - B.M. Knox Among the great t...
24 Mar 2025 35 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Greek theatre emerged from the same creative spirit that fuelled many enduring ancient Greek innovations. Democracy, philosophy, art, architecture, medicine, warfare… Athens’s achievements alone remain monumental. Yet alongside these intellectual and...
15 Mar 2025 16 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
In the late sixth century BC, the small Greek city-state of Athens emerged onto the world’s stage as a new centre of democracy. Since then, its ambitions took it right across the Greek world, and into conflict with neighbouring great powers; the Pers...
8 Mar 2025 7 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The Peloponnesian War had been a seemingly never-ending cycle of great victories and terrible defeats, primarily for Athens. Having started the war at the height of their power under the great statesman Pericles, one year later they found themselves...
6 Mar 2025 8 minute read 5 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The Battle of Cyzicus in 410 BC had momentarily restored Athenian dominance at sea, but the consequences of the victory were far more complex than immediate celebrations suggested. While Alcibiades, Thrasybulus, and Theramenes had shattered the Spart...
14 Aug 2024 28 minute read 1 comment YouveBeenGreeked
While the Greek states fought off the Persian Empire in the early fifth century BC, defeating Darius and Xerxes's armies at Marathon, Salamis, Plataea and Mycale, the Greeks of Sicily simultaneously defeated a vast Carthaginian invasion force at the...
