In 1386, gathering a multi-ethnic army, Prince Lazar of Serbia defeated the local Ottoman commander Lala Sahin Pasha at Pločnik. Achieving several minor victories, more Wallachians, Bulgarians, ...

ATHENS — Among the seminal battles that changed the course of history, few figure as prominently as the Battle of Chaeronea. The epic clash pitted the Macedonians led by King Philip II against an ...

Over the course of history, only a few single days can be said to have “changed the world,” but the day on which a coalition of Greek city-states was defeated by Philip II of Macedon, at the battle of ...

Epaminondas defending Pelopidas and the Sacred Band, in an illustration by William Rainey (1910). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In another article, we explained how, in the year 318 BCE, ...

“Chaeronea, 2 August 338 BC: A day that changed the world” highlights the significance of the Battle of Chaeronea in the transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic period. The battle established ...