A woman who rarely receives praise, though her disobedience was for an understandable reason and ultimately provided the ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...

Haman’s epithet, Agagite, indicates his descent from Agag, King of the Amalekite people. The similarity of his personality suggests this descent may be symbolic. The king had ordered Mordecai to ...

Artemisia, named after the Goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, is the only woman Herodotus attributes with the virtue of courage, or andreia, an almost impossible quality for a woman to possess ...