Myke Cole - Co-author, The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae Ancient Sparta has been held up for the last two and a half millennia as the unmatched warrior city-state, where every male ...

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece, but the impact of its unique culture is impossible to ignore.

In seventh-century B.C. Sparta, the poet Alcman helped pioneer ... style would prove central to many poetic traditions, from ancient Rome to medieval France to Renaissance England and into the ...

The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked ...

Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government. Two kings ruled the city, but a 28-member 'council of elders' limited their powers. These men were recruited from the highest social class, the ...

The wellness destination Euphoria Retreat provides services to heal the body and mind in the ancient fortress town of medieval Mystras.

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No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the ...

In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single country like it is today. It was made up of lots of smaller states. These states were always squabbling and often went to war. Sparta and Athens fought a ...

SPARTA, N.C. (WGHP) — Officials in Sparta are investigating a police officer after a video was shared online. According to a news release shared Thursday morning on Sparta’s town Facebook page ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians.