Paul Cartledge, in “Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece,” puts the city back on the cultural map, and makes a case for the Theban general Epaminondas as the Nelson of his day.

The latest competition – dubbed the Southern Gates of Thebes – seeks ambitious proposals to rethink the south approach to the city’s historic citadel. Proposals will be expected to remove the ‘current ...

The Sacred Band of Thebes was ancient Greece’s savage gift to anyone still facing opponents of gays in the military today. An elite military force, this platoon of egregiously out warriors ...

For a generation after Leuctra, Thebes was the dominant military force in Greece — an era historian James Romm calls “the age of the Sacred Band.” In the end, it took none other than ...