The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.

Unlike the Greek focus on external honor, Christianity turns the gaze inward. The believer must acknowledge personal ...

Friends don’t let friends get their city-states captured. In Civilization V, city-states were pretty much pointless wastes of land, only there to be paid off for favors in the World Congress.

Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male ...

Some of Rome’s first kings were from Etruria, and Etruscans may have founded the city-state that would dominate ... strongly influenced ancient Greek and Roman culture.