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Neil Middleton
Neil has studied ancient history and archaeology up to master's level with a focus on ancient Greece. His particular areas of interest are the politics of the Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic eras. After his studies, he has spent time living in Greece and France.
Education:University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2021MA Ancient HistoryUniversity of Manchester, 2009BA Ancient History and ArchaeologyExpertise:Articles by Neil Middleton
In 404 BCE, Athens’ famous democracy had fallen under the control of the Thirty Tyrants, but a group of democratic exiles would fight this oligarchy.
Pergamon rose on the edges of the great powers of the Hellenistic world to become a leading political and cultural force.
The Battle of Navarino ended the Age of Sail, with Britain, France, and Russia defeating the Ottomans, securing Greece’s future.
The story of Darius III, the last king of Achaemenid Persia, was much greater than just losing Persia to Alexander the Great.
The end of Classical Greece can be dated to 338 BCE when Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans at the Battle of Chaeronea.
Renowned for this study of poisons, Mithridates VI of Pontus was one of Rome’s most tenacious opponents.
Under two reforming kings, Hellenistic Sparta in the third century BCE briefly reversed its decline with a revolutionary program of debt cancellation and wealth redistribution.
200 years after the Persian Wars, Greece faced another massive assault. This time, the threat came not from the east but from a Celtic invasion.