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

Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...

Fierce? Yes. Tough? You bet. But the true history of the Greek civilization had a lot more nuance Myke Cole Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered an ancient Greek bronze vase made by Spartans, revealing long-distance trade and ...

Popular culture has mythologised The Spartans as militaristic warriors but how much of what we think we know is actually true ...

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 ...

On the Athenian side was a rather colourful strategos, or general. This relatively young man's name was Alcibiades, and his ...

Amid serene olive groves, I meandered through Greece’s ghostly ruins of ancient Sparta, its archeological rubble evidence of a militant society where school-aged boys were whipped bloody to toughen ...