The Greek government is set to probe soldiers who chanted anti-Turkish slogans during a national day parade on Monday, local media reported. The incident, involving cadets at the Greek Navy’s ...

In 1829, the Greeks finally achieved independence. Records indicate that when Bavarian soldiers arrived in Athens in the 1830s to drive the remaining Turks from the Acropolis, they took up ...

Athens was strong at sea ... chose the 300 best hoplites in Sparta to become the hippeis—elite soldiers who formed the king’s private guard. Known as a hoplon—from which is derived the ...

A copy of Themistocles' order to evacuate Athens was discovered on stone in ... showing that he had chosen not to fight as a knight, but as a soldier on board one of the triremes.