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 ...

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

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

For the first time in history, Sparta’s mayor is a woman. Kristen Gust was sworn in on Wednesday. “I hope this shows a small town like ours can continue to be progressive and put women in positions of ...