Nabis, the last king of Sparta, is often described as both a king and a tyrant, depending on the perspective and sources.

Nothing survives of this primary text. While the historian Diodorus Siculus and the Greek geographer Strabo embroidered on existing reports of the Babylonian wonder in the first entury B.C ...

By the time the Greek writer Diodorus Siculus visited the valley's tombs (circa 60 B.C.) he wrote, "We found nothing there except the results of pillage and destruction." It's possible ...