Popular culture has mythologised The Spartans as militaristic warriors who enjoyed nothing more than battling to the death. But how much of what we think we know is actually true? And what can modern ...
As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Sparta comparison doesn't bode well for the nation as it fights a ground war and a PR ...
In 480 BC, King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 of his warriors made their legendary last stand at Thermopylae. Facing a Persian army numbering in the hundreds of thousands, the Spartans held their ground ...
On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...
The Sparta United Methodist Church is scheduled to present its seventh annual Our Community in Concert on Saturday, Oct. 18 ...