In ancient Sparta, the Agoge prepared boys for a lifetime of military service with harsh training that emphasised strength ...

They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury, in a city that contained neither walls, nor grand buildings. Famous quotes and anecdotes associated with the Spartans: Herodotus reports ...

After Rome conquered Ancient Greece, it turned Sparta into a theme park, with performances for tourists showcasing its ...

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.

Tubes of hematite -- a form of rust -- may be the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth. Credit: Matthew Dodd Ancient rocks in northwestern Canada may contain the oldest evidence of ...

Elon Musk is known to have a complicated private life – and it looks ... name Lycurgus is derived from ancient Spartan lawgiver who is known for shaping Sparta’s governance.

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 ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass extinctions 252 million years ago, not only the dinosaurs but also many other ...

The Greeks took their ideas with them and they started a way of life ... called ‘ancient Greece’. Instead, Greece was divided up into small city-states, like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and ...

They lived an austere life, despising any sort of luxury, in a city that contained neither walls, nor grand buildings. Famous quotes and anecdotes associated with the Spartans: Herodotus reports ...