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 ...

Sparta was an ancient Greek city-state located in the region of Laconia, in the Peloponnese. It was known for its military ...

Sparta and Athens. Names recognizable across the globe. They were once the powerhouses of Ancient Greece, and it was the ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” Nonsense.

If you imagine yourself in ancient Greece, it is probably in one of the two principal cities (or city-states), democratic, fractious, philosophy-loving Athens, or oligarchic, disciplined, ...

Bagnall (The Punic Wars, 2005), a former British army chief of the general staff, completed this rigorous study of ancient Greece's 27-year civil war just before his death in 2002. A seminal event in ...

Ubisoft has unveiled Assassin's Creed Odyssey, the latest installment in the Assassin's Creed franchise. The company first teased the game in late May with a brief teaser, one it has expanded up on ...