This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Sparta’s enemies, when facing the intimidating Spartan forces, would see a wall of shields ...

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Then in 431 BC a contingent of soldiers from Thebes, Sparta's ally, tried to seize control of a town called Potidea. Caught and imprisoned, the townspeople put all 200 members of the advanced ...

Sweet Pea became a legend in Sparta and on the Leigh’s Lost and Found facebook page. So much so, a resident there wrote a book about her. Sweet Pea’s story starts out normally enough.