Troy and the Assyrian Empire, according to Ctesias. The earliest reference to any connection between Troy and the Assyrian Empire comes from Ctesias. He was a Greek writer who lived in the late-fifth ...

Around 200 BCE, ancient people visited the Temple in the City of Hierapolis, located in modern-day Turkey, part of the Roman ...

I: THE HELLENIC CRUSADE. The freedom of the Greek city-states died on September 1st, 338 1 on the field of Chaeronea, where Philip II of Macedon defeated a last desperate alliance of Greek cities, ...

In other words, King Minos essentially created a sea-empire, or thalassocracy, which covered the Cyclades. Other sources, such as Homer, confirm that he ruled from Crete.Thucydides goes on to state ...