Women warriors appear in myths across the world. Yet historical sources and archaeological finds show the female warrior is ...

though in time they adopted tactics to overcome the close combat favored by Greek armies. During the 5th century BC, swords became increasing shorter as tactics changed in favor of less armor ...

However, that may not have mattered because the warriors would have stood close together with their weapons facing forward. The Corinthian style is named after Corinth, an ancient Greek city-state ...