Tag: Greece

The delay with which the Athenians, after Salamis and Mycale, had resumed their policy of expansion against Persia and the coincidence of this revival with the war in Greece, the…

With this name is called the period of about half a century between the taking of Sesto and the Peloponnesian war. During the Pentecontaetia the effects of the victories with…

Social conditions Greece has had a relatively well-developed social insurance system, but the deep economic crisis of 2009 hit the system hard. Many Greeks descended into deep poverty with increasingly…